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mirable. But, when they called for and there’s also recognition that this isn’t 2015 San Pedro Bay Ports & South Coast Air Basin Major Sources Emissions Contribut ons in % insisted upon equipment that could re- the end of the road. We can do even bet- duce invasive species to a level 1000X ter. The challenge is that the last bits are

Source NOx PM10 PM2.5 DPM SOx CO2e more stringent than the IMO’s bench- always the hardest and a lot of the low

SPBP mark, it contributed in no small part to hanging fruit has already been taken. We

Ocean Going Vessels 5.31% 0.310% 0.695% 4.71% 5.62% 0.374% the gridlock that has delayed implemen- believe that by working with industry,

Harbor Craf 1.00% 0.106% 0.233% 2.06% 0.0200% 0.0736% tation of global regulations to get the and as long as we don’t specify the tech-

Cargo Equipment 0.716% 0.0333% 0.0736% 0.541% 0.0516% 0.192% job done. Indeed, California’s Balkan- nologies or how to get there, we think in-

Locomot ves 0.953% 0.100% 0.219% 1.95% 0.0216% 0.0816% ized and radical approach was so severe dustry will get closer to zero emissions.” 0.426% Trucks 2.05% 0.0254% 0.0582% 0.459% 0.114% that today, the equipment to verify that That ‘low hanging fruit’ has produced draconian (and, by most estimates, un- a bountiful environmental harvest al-

SCAB necessary) standard doesn’t even exist. ready. The attached chart – gleaned from

Stat onary Equipment 15.0% 78.2% 70.0% 2.28% 58.5% 41.1%

This was one of those times when folks South Coast Air Basin (SCAB) and Port

On road mobile (w/o SPBP) 51.3% 16.4% 18.9% 41.7% 10.6% 46.1% said, “If we build it (the rule), then the of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach

Other Mobile (w/o SPBP) 23.6% 4.78% 9.78% 46.3% 25.1% 11.7% technology to solve it, will come.” Not 2015 Emissions Inventory Reports – is

TOTALS 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% so much, actually. telling. In that chart, anything under the

Arguably, and where this BWTS equip- SCAB area includes everything except ment should have already been installed port emissions. SBPB – or San Pedro on as many as 60,000 vessels worldwide, Bay Ports – data details emissions com- the task is only now gathering steam. It’s ing from the ports. The chart clearly ported that congested highways cost the concentrate chie? y on the ports when far why industry advocates and stakeholders shows just how much ‘pollution’ that trucking industry $63 billion in 2015 and greater gains can be had – there’s that – like AWO for example – are insisting can be attributed to the two ports that an- caused 996 million hours of lost produc- low hanging fruit analogy again – by im- on the so-called federal VIDA legislation nually handle as much as 40 percent of tivity. That, they add, is equal to 362,000 proving highways, rail intermodal con- aimed at unifying environmental regula- the boxes that cross the collective wharf trucks sitting idle for a year. Unknown nections, inland locks and dams. There tory regulations under one regulatory in the United States. It isn’t anywhere is how many of those trucks are running is clearly work still to be done on the body so that this sort of nonsense can be near as much as the environmental lobby their engines as they wait for the infra- nation’s collective waterfront, and if the avoided in the future. Which brings us would like you to think. structure to improve. I’d like to see that progress achieved so far is any indica- right back to CAAP. Outside the port’s gates – any port, for NOx, SOx and particulate matter output tion, that’s not going to stop any time

Can we hope that CAAP has been any that matter – congestion is what is killing calculated. Spending that CAAP $16 soon. better thought out than the examples laid productivity. It is also creating its own billion on the roads, rail and intermodal But laying the lion’s share of cost on out above? considerable environmental footprint. connections to save $63 billion in lost the maritime sector – ports and ves-

With road and rail systems transporting productivity and increased pollution? sels alike – to clean up something that

What’s the Real Story? volumes far beyond what they were de- Now, that’s a CAAP plan that many has already been improved by leaps

In just the past few years, it is a fact signed for, gridlock and congestion are could rally behind. and bounds is not only unfair; it’s also that tenants, customers, and vessel op- inevitable. For example, the American In their well-intentioned haste to clean foolish. And someday, it might just take erators in the Port of Long Beach have Transportation Research Institute has re- up the environment, CAAP proponents down the supply chain along the way. reduced emissions faster than any other industrial sector. Without a doubt, this work needs to go on – and it will. But, calling the ports “one of the biggest sources of pollution” is beyond the pale.

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