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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
San Francisco Bay Area

Regionally, The San Francisco Bay Area’s air quality is compromised by its Port of Oakland and goods movement arteries that carry goods from the Port to Northern California and beyond. The Port of Oakland is the 4th largest container port in the U.S., and the 3rd largest container port in California.  The San Francisco Bay Area is in federal clean air non-attainment for 8-hour and 1-hour ozone, as well as for larger and smaller particulate matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5). 

Additionally, the West Oakland community, which is not only port-adjacent, but also bordered by three major freeways, bears the brunt of the public health and environmental damage from the ports and goods movement system in the Bay Area.

A recent health risk assessment of the West Oakland community conducted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) found that exposure to diesel particulate matter from goods movement sources results in a cancer risk rate of 1200 new cancer cases per million people over a lifetime, 18 premature deaths (in age 30 and older), 290 asthma attacks, 2,600 days of work loss, and 15,000 minor restricted activity episodes each year.

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