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Local air quality regulator finds LA-Long Beach falls short
来源：shippingazette 编辑：编辑部 发布：2023/09/28 16:45:17
CALIFORNIA's South Coast Air Quality Management District says the ports of LA and Long Beach must go beyond the 2006 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) or the region will fail to comply with the federal Clean Air Act, reports New York's Journal of Commerce.
"The ports appear to have indeed met their own goals by the target year of 2023," said the California air quality regulator.
"However, they have no further goals in the future. Since the ports are still the largest source of emissions in our region, significantly more is needed to meet federal air quality standards."
Harmful emissions spiked at the ports during the pandemic due to record container volumes and unprecedented supply chain bottlenecks that caused ships to idle at anchorage and trucks to back up at terminal gates. Emissions fell sharply in 2022 as port fluidity returned to normal.
Los Angeles said in its Inventory of Air Emissions report of September 7 said conditions in 2022 improved so much that the port achieved the emissions-reduction goals last year that had been set in the CAPP for 2023.
Long Beach, in its emissions inventory released September 11, said it also met the CAAP's standards for 2023 one year early. Emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx), diesel particulate matter (DPM) and sulphur oxide (SOx), which contribute to respiratory diseases and cancer, were all reduced.
"The ports appear to have indeed met their own goals by the target year of 2023," said the California air quality regulator.
"However, they have no further goals in the future. Since the ports are still the largest source of emissions in our region, significantly more is needed to meet federal air quality standards."
Harmful emissions spiked at the ports during the pandemic due to record container volumes and unprecedented supply chain bottlenecks that caused ships to idle at anchorage and trucks to back up at terminal gates. Emissions fell sharply in 2022 as port fluidity returned to normal.
Los Angeles said in its Inventory of Air Emissions report of September 7 said conditions in 2022 improved so much that the port achieved the emissions-reduction goals last year that had been set in the CAPP for 2023.
Long Beach, in its emissions inventory released September 11, said it also met the CAAP's standards for 2023 one year early. Emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx), diesel particulate matter (DPM) and sulphur oxide (SOx), which contribute to respiratory diseases and cancer, were all reduced.