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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.

Port Scene
Web Resources

Mineta Transportation Institute
http://transweb.sjsu.edu/mtiportal/about/index.html
One of the best additional resources for transportation in California. The Mineta Transportation Institute was established by Congress in 1991 as part of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) and was reauthorized in 1998. The institute is funded by Congress through the United States Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration, by the California Legislature through the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and by private grants and donations. MTI was selected as a national “Center of Excellence” by the U.S. Department of Transportation through a competitive process in 2002.

Green Collar Jobs Study and Report
Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes, 2008. 
http://bss.sfsu.edu/raquelrp/

Community Jobs in the Green Economy
Apollo Alliance and Urban Habitat
http://www.urbanhabitat.org/sec/updates/publications

Israel’s Electric Car Initiative Entrepreneur
http://shaiagassi.typepad.com/the_long_tailpipe/2008/03/virtual-oil-fie.html

Where Great Thinkers Come Together
http://www.edge.org/

Next 10 Green Innovation Index
www.next10.org/environment/greenInnovation.html
The Green Innovation Index is a new report by Next 10 that analyzes key economic and environmental indicators to help us better understand the role green ...

MATES III Carcinogenic Risk Interactive Map
South Coast AQMD
http://www2.aqmd.gov/webappl/matesiii/

Breathless in LA
Sierra Club Chronicles and Brave New Films, 2005
http://www.sierraclub.org/tv/episode-la.asp

The Pump Handle (water cooler for health crowd)
http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/harm-to-communities-from-goods-movement-system/  

Fact Sheet: Release of the California's Draft Health Risk Assessments in Southern California February
California Air Resources Board, 2008
http://www.arb.ca.gov/railyard/hra/031808hra_release_fs.pdf

Fact Sheet: Strategies to Reduce Locomotive and Associated Railyard Emissions
California Air Resources Board, February 2008
http://www.arb.ca.gov/railyard/hra/031808hra_stra_fs.pdf

Southern California’s Freight Movement Challenge
Leonard Transportation Center Forum Panel: The Future of Goods Movement and Inland Ports in the Inland Empire
By Ty Schuiling, May 4, 2007
http://leonard.csusb.edu/outreach/documents/Schuiling

Environment Now Annual Report 2003

Solar Richmond  
http://www.solarrichmond.org
Green collar workforce preparer

Grid Alternatives
http://www.gridalternatives.org
Renewable energy and energy efficiency services, equipment and training.for low income home owners and communitiies ...

Rocky Mountain Institute
http://www.rmi.org/
“Climate solutions are not costly but profitable, because saving fuel costs less than buying fuel.” RMI advocates what it calls “Natural Capitalism” and says that “Our staff shows businesses, communities, individuals, and governments how to create more wealth and employment, protect and enhance natural and human capital, increase profit and competitive advantage, and enjoy many other benefits — largely by doing what they do far more efficiently.

Profitable solutions for oil, climate, and proliferation
By Amory B. Lovins, 2007
http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Climate/C07-08_ProfitableSolutions.pdf

New Paper Elevates The Role Of Black Carbon In Global Warming
Black Carbon and Climate Change News, March 2008
http://climatesci.org/2008/03/25/new-paper-elevates-the-role-of-black-carbon-in-global-warming/

Climate Change and California’s Local Public Health Agencies
Louise Wells Bedsworth, Public Policy Institute of California, February 2008.
http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=799

Climate change adversely affects human health 
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr11/en/
The WHO finds that increased global temperatures have already resulted in increased population of malaria carrying mosquitoes, and in spread of cholera in areas of more frequent flooding.  Global warming will also result in more frequent and severe weather systems—floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves.

Global Warming: Early Warming Signs (interactive map of world regions)
Union of Concerned Scientists & World Resources Institute
http://www.climatehotmap.org/index.html

Environmental News Network
http://www.enn.com/
Offers online services including daily feature stories, a free press release service, and publications of environmental news

Grist
http://www.grist.org/
Environmental news, advice, cartoons, a blog, and more that'll make you laugh out loud.

Treehugger
http://www.treehugger.com/
Partial to a modern aesthetic, it shares sustainable design, green news and solutions

350.org
http://www.350.org
Climate action call to change

The Oil Drum: Discussions about Energy and Our Future
http://www.theoildrum.com/

PriceOfOil.org
www.priceofoil.org/
Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy.

Green For All
http://www.greenforall.org/

15 Green Religious Leaders
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/07/24/religious/

“Cummins Westport leads industry with EPA certification of 2007 ISL G certified to 2010 emissions standards”
July 10, 2007
http://www.cumminswestport.com/corporate/newsdetail.php?id=333&return_to=..%2Findex.php

Green Car Congress
www.greencarcongress.com

“NYK to Deploy 38 Containerships with AMP Capability”
Green Car Congress, May 2, 2007
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/05/nyk_to_deploy_3.html#more

"Maersk favours US West Coast distillate"
http://www.sustainableshipping.com/news/2007/08/68665?gsid=5665dd15ab9a7b732087b7480bdc030a&asi=1

“Foss Maritime Proposes First Hybrid Tug Boat; SoCal Ports to Provide $1.35M to Support Development”
Green Car Congress, March 1, 2007
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/03/foss_maritime_p.html

“Diesel Hybrid Rubber-Tired Gantry Crane in Service in Canada”
Green Car Congress, June 19, 2007
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/06/diesel_hybrid_r.html

“SES Launches Fourth LNG Yard Hostler Test”
Green Car Congress, November 3, 2007
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/11/ses-launches-fo.html

The EnviroMedia Greenwashing Index
http://www.greenwashingindex.com/index.php

Heartland Institute: Common-Sense Environmentalism Issue Suite 
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=10488
Climate Change Deniers.

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