LA and Long Beach are imposing even stricter emission goals for 2023 and beyond after reducing diesel emissions by up to 90 per cent since 2005 under the Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) introduced in 2006 and revised in 2010.
The southern California ports next month will begin to conduct workshops with the industry to develop measures to further cut emissions, including nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxide, diesel particulate matter and greenhouse gas emissions.
Already the industry said it is unhappy with the rising tide of regulation, calling on California Air Resources Board (CARB) to stop basing ever-stricter emission rules on false data.
But the director of environmental management at the Port of Los Angeles, Chris Cannon, says it is now time for stricter standards that promise further gains in emissions reductions, reports IHS media.
CAAP 3.0 will advance the ports towards a zero-emissions policy, which implies electric operation and near-zero emissions where electric conveyances may not be feasible, such as ocean-going ships, said Long Beach planner Rick Cameron.
Compared to the 2005 base year, the ports have reduced diesel PMs by 80 per cent, NOx by 57 per cent and SOx by 90 per cent.
Mr Cannon noted that the ports have met or are close to achieving the 2014 goals of reducing diesel PMs by 72 per cent, NOx by 22 per cent and SOx by 93 per cent compared to 2005 levels.
But new targets, he said, call for reductions of DPMs by 77 per cent, NOx by 59 per cent and SOx by 93 per cent in 2023, and then even greater reductions in later years.
In June, California waterfront bosses called on the state's California Air Resources Board (CARB) to stop basing ship emission rules on false data, reported IHS media.
In 2010, CARB was discovered exaggerating diesel pollution by 340 per cent, and knowingly passing a tough clean-air rules based on false data. It apologised for doing so when exposed by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Today, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA) has appealed to CARB to appreciate the changes in shipping since the out-of-date, scarifying data on which it relies were produced in 2005.
The PMSA wants CARB to understand that fewer, bigger, cleaner ships that call today at California ports mean less pollution in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland.
Annual port emissions today show a 50 per cent reduction in NOx, 90 per cent less SOx and 80 per cent fewer particulates than in 2005, said PMSA vice president TL Garrett said.
WORLD SHIPPING
04 October 2015 - 21:39
LA-Long Beach to cut emissions by imposing even stiffer clean air rules
LA and Long Beach are imposing even stricter emission goals for 2023 and beyond after reducing diesel emissions by up to 90 per cent since 2005 under the Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) introduced in 2006 and revised in 2010.
WORLD SHIPPING
04 October 2015 - 21:39
LA-Long Beach to cut emissions by imposing even stiffer clean air rules
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