LA, Long Beach Ports to Give Clean Air Plan Update

LA, Long Beach Ports to Give Clean Air Plan Update

Officials from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to offer an update on the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan and are asking stakeholders to weigh in at a virtual meeting set. The meeting, set to take place from 10 a.m. to noon on Oct. 12, is to include the latest information on the seaports’ feasibility assessment studies of drayage trucks, the implementation of the Clean Truck Fund Rate, annual emission inventories and the Green Shipping Corridor. First approved in 2006, the CAAP is the ports’ strategic blueprint for dramatically reducing air pollution generated by…
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L.A., Long Beach Ports Offer Clean Air Action Plan Update

L.A., Long Beach Ports Offer Clean Air Action Plan Update

Officials at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are expected to update the public on the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) on Wednesday, June 1. The meeting is expected to touch on technology advancement projects at the ports, studies that assess the feasibility of cargo handling equipment and trucks and the Clean Truck Fund Rate, which launched in April. The CTF rate program allows the ports to collect at least $10 per loaded TEU on trucks coming and going from terminals. (Zero-emission and low-nitrogen oxide-emitting drayage trucks may receive a short-term exemption). The fund…
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