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EPA Assesses Strategies to Reduce Air Pollution at Ports
USAgNet - 09/23/2016

An EPA report finds that air pollution at the nation's ports can be reduced significantly at all port types and sizes through a variety of strategies and cleaner technologies. Implementing these approaches, the report finds, would reduce greenhouse gas and other harmful emissions from diesel-powered ships, trucks and other port equipment.

'The National Port Strategy Assessment: Reducing Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases at U.S. Ports' examines current and future emission trends from diesel engines in port areas, and explores the emissions reduction potential of strategies like replacing and repowering older, dirtier vehicles and engines and deploying zero emissions technologies.

"This report shows that there are many opportunities to reduce harmful pollution at ports that we know will work," said Christopher Grundler, director of EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality. "This is great news for the roughly 39 million Americans who live and breathe near these centers of commerce."

U.S. ports are set to expand significantly as international trade continues to grow, and the size of ships coming to ports increases. This growth means more diesel engines at ports emitting carbon dioxide that contributes to climate change. These engines also emit fine particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and other pollutants that contribute to serious health problems including heart and lung disease, respiratory illness, and premature mortality.

EPA's regulations are already reducing port-related diesel emissions from trucks, locomotives, cargo handling equipment and ships.


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