The ports of Los Angeles LA and Long Beach will give a progress update on the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) at April 2.
The meeting will include information on the Ports’ 2024 air quality achievements and 2025 priorities, as well as a status update on the truck and cargo handling equipment feasibility assessments.
The meeting
The meeting will be held at Banning’s Landing Community Center, 100 E. Water St., Wilmington, CA 90744. Proceedings will be livestreamed here, passcode: 444604. Participation is in-person only. Minutes and presentations of prior meetings can be found here
The CAAP
Updated in 2017, the CAAP is a comprehensive strategy for accelerating progress toward a zero-emissions future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy. Since 2005, port-related air pollution emissions in San Pedro Bay have dropped 91% for diesel particulate matter, 72% for nitrogen oxides, and 98% for sulfur oxides.
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Targets for reducing greenhouse gases
Targets for reducing greenhouse gases from port-related sources were introduced as part of the 2017 CAAP. The document calls for the ports to reduce GHGs 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The Clean Air Action Plan was originally approved in 2006. View the latest emissions inventories for the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles.
A federal Clean Energy Grant
It is noteworthy that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach stand to reap millions of dollars from a federal Clean Energy Grant announced Friday, Oct. 13, which will bring $1.2 billion to California.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and a number of city and LA port officials gathered at the waterfront in San Pedro to hail the announcement. A similar celebration took place earlier in Long Beach.
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Accelerate clean energy innovation
Whereas An action by the federal administration to accelerate clean energy innovation, particularly in the growing hydrogen sector. The 45V tax credit will provide important incentives to scale up hydrogen technologies, create jobs, boost local economies, improve air quality, and further solidify California’s role as a global leader in clean energy and emissions reductions.
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