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  - Health costs to Californians, so far this year, of port related pollution in California.
The Ports of LA  Long Beach Clean Air Action Plan passed in November 2006, and 1500 clean trucks service the ports.
Port Pollution Facts
  • In Long Beach, 20% of children under 17 have been diagnosed with asthma - nearly twice the national average.
  • $67 million: The cost of respiratory problems associated with ports in CA.
  • Diesel Exhaust is responsible for 84% of the cancer risk from air pollution in the Southern California Air Basin.
  • $19 BILLION: Cost on health system due to port pollution. average.
  • Each day the Port of LA emits over 30 tons of NOx, while a half a million cars emits less than 24 tons and the average power plant emits less than 5 tons.
  • 2,400 - Estimated number of premature deaths caused by diesel emissions.
  • 800,000: Number of children that pollution reduction could save from lung disease.
  • Each day the Port of Los Angeles emits over 30 tons of NOx, while a half a million cars emits less than 24 tons and the average power plant emits less than 5 tons.

Solutions

Cleaning up the goods movement system requires aggressive action along three tracks, simultaneously: 

  1. Now: Cleanest Available. Immediate, large-scale production and deployment of the cleanest available fuels and technologies to maximize displacement of petroleum (gasoline and diesel) and reduction of harmful air pollution and greenhouse gases – with preference for those that can also serve as a “bridge” to the next generation of fuels, technologies and infrastructure.
  2. Next Generation:  What fuels and technologies are on the horizon – likely to be ready for large-scale deployment in the next decade, and carrying the potential to significantly reduce emissions and/or oil usage before we can shift to fundamentally new infrastructures?
  3. Vision 2050:  If we’re going to fundamentally re-make the goods movement system – the railroads, highways, sea and air transport patterns… the technologies that use the infrastructure…the fuels that power them…and the ways-of-living that drive the whole system – then we have to start now. That requires engaging the public and the whole gamut of other stakeholders in assessing, planning and then developing the type of systems we need to end oil dependency and save ourselves from a global climate catastrophe.

Ultimately, it comes down to thoughtful, specific, urgent, and action-oriented strategy of new alternative solutions for shifting to cleaner and more efficient fuels and technologies – and of building the infrastructure to support this new system.


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