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January 16, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
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- CARB, fuel, portcommerce, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles
Pollution from cargo ships that burn high-sulfur bunker fuel is responsible for roughly half of the 2,000 tons per year of deadly diesel particulate matter at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Part of this problem can be...continued→
July 25, 2008
Posted by David Pettit in Health and the Environment
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- airpollution, cancer, diesel, fuel, lowsulfurfuel, portpollution, shippingindustry, ships, sulfur
Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) enacted historic regulation to require oceangoing vessels, including container ships and tankers, to use low-sulfur fuel within 24 miles of California’s coast, beginning on July 1, 2009. This regulation, the only one of...continued→
