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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.

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Nationally, there seems to be an awakening of acknowledgement that all our infrastructures are broken or ailing, in desperate need of updating and repair, or are simply no longer sustainable. The new Administration will offer extraordinary opportunity for change. And PEOPLE can make a difference.  It is a PRIME opportunity to make a different plan, to think about what we really need to build in our communities and across our country; all the scientists and experts agree - renewable energy in the United States is real right now and we have enough to build across the country in the next five years where 25% of our coal use could be shut down – within fifteen years we could end coal use in the United States and replace our diesel trucks with clean rail freight systems and a new workforce of green experts in goods movement.

The politics or hyperbole about how hard or challenging it all will be come from entrenched interests who would prefer that the game remain the same. But we can’t do that and most Americans understand this.

The key is how to take the big planning, investment, and consumer steps differently than we have in an oil-driven economy, and how to make it all economically viable and sustainable, environmentally responsible, and socially and humanly equitable. The answer is we can do it together, and we can start by making communities a center-piece of voice and knowledge when it comes to their infrastructure systems, when it comes to the vision they have for their own futures, and finally, we can make sure policy leaders here and around the globe see our individual evidence of our own stewardship and efficient behavior – and we can call with one voice to make the necessary changes so 2050 is a new, green and independent society.

EndOil and Communities for Clean Ports work to educate every American about what they must know about the facts of their communities and the policies and systems of infrastructure that affect their lives. How can they change their consuming behavior and become an activist for change – a person who understands that the new energy system is possible and that you are a vital link to this reality?  How can they insert themselves into the policy and funding process of public infrastructure and be effective in communicating their needs?

We can do this together.

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