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The Port of Los Angeles is collaborating with ferry service Catalina Express and whale watching tour agency Harbor Breeze Cruises on a series of projects to test emission-reduction technology for specialized harbor craft. The project, made possible in part by a $31 million California Air Resources Board (CARB) grant, would demonstrate two harbor craft emission-reduction technologies and a comprehensive assessment of “next-generation, less-polluting harbor craft,” the port said Jan. 16. The Los Angeles Marine Emission Reduction (LA MER) project calls for designing, building and launching a passenger ferry running on Tier 4 engines and “potentially a CARB-verified, U.S. Coast Guard-approved…