2014, Los Angeles and Pollution

Study finds airplane traffic a major contributor to particle pollution in Los Angeles

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MAY 29, 2014

Results of a new study suggest that emissions particle emissions from airplane traffic at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) are a major source of particle number (PN) concentrations in the Los Angeles area that are of the same general magnitude as the entire urban freeway network. Credit: ACS, Hudda et al.

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Port of Los Angeles surpasses 2023 pollution reduction targets five years ahead of schedule; NOx down 60% from 2005

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AUGUST 25, 2018

Emissions of NO x , a key component of smog, at the Port of Los Angeles are down 60% compared to 2005 emissions levels. —Chris Cannon, Director of Environmental Management for the Port of Los Angeles. million Twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). Source: 2017 Inventory of Air Emissions.

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Los Angeles 2005 Pollution 2017

CARB approves updated “At-Berth” regulation, expanding efforts to cut pollution from ships in California ports

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AUGUST 28, 2020

The California Air Resources Board approved a new regulation designed to reduce pollution further from ocean-going vessels while docked at California’s busiest ports. That rule has achieved an 80% reduction in harmful emissions from more than 13,000 vessel visits since 2014. Auto carriers will need to comply starting in 2025.

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Study: ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

2014) are included. The inset shows ozone trends in Beijing (red) and Los Angeles (blue). Note that ozone in Beijing today is comparable to Los Angeles in the 1990s. Many countries regulate ozone because of the damage the pollutant does to plants and people. 2017 are included.

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Ozone Pollution China South Korea

California Air Resources Board settles with COSCO Container Lines for $965,000; >2,600 air quality violations from 2014-2017

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the Shanghai-based company’s 2014-2017 fleet visits to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and the Port of Oakland. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2014-2016, COSCO’s visits to these ports did not meet operational time limits for at least half of the visits.

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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines pays $253K to CARB for violating at-berth regulations

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego.

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US MARAD study finds marine use of natural gas substantially reduces some air pollutants and slightly reduces GHG emissions

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AUGUST 26, 2014

A recently released total fuel cycle analysis for maritime case studies shows that natural gas fuels reduce some air quality pollutants substantially, and reduce major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions slightly, when compared to conventional petroleum-based marine fuels (low-sulfur and high-sulfur). This is an important consideration.

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Mariner Pollution Gas Emissions

California ARB approves first commercially ready at-berth ship emissions capturing system; alternative to shore power

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JULY 2, 2015

It is mounted and deployed from a barge that is positioned alongside ships berthed at the Port of Los Angeles. The system is positioned over vessels’ smoke stacks and captures and treats more than 90% of particulate (PM), NO x , SO 2 , and related diesel pollutants emitted. Partial funding for the METS project came from a $1.5-million

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Los Angeles California Emissions Commercial

Give Me A #BreakFreeLA & Then Give Me 100% Renewables RIGHT NOW

Creative Greenius

APRIL 26, 2016

.” He always was so ahead of the curve… Like I say, I live in Torrance, home of the exploding Exxon Mobil refinery where our Air Quality Management District just gave the refinery operators exemptions to exceed pollution limits while they restart the aging climate wrecker back up. .

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Los Angeles Renewable Long Beach Climate Change

US EPA settles with three trucking companies over California diesel rule; $201K in penalties

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MAY 5, 2017

Diesel trucks are heavily used in the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles Basin, which suffer from some of the worst air quality in the nation. EPA is committed to helping California achieve cleaner, healthier air by ensuring compliance with the state’s pollution rules. Earlier post.). —Chief of CARB Enforcement, Todd Sax.

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Study links ambient PM2.5 and ozone specifically caused by vehicle exhaust emissions to ~361,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015

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MARCH 1, 2019

The urban areas with the highest number of transportation-attributable air pollution in 2015 were Guangzhou, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, Cairo, New Delhi, Moscow, Beijing, London, and Los Angeles. Ambient air pollution is the leading environmental health risk factor worldwide, contributing to 3.4 of global ambient PM 2.5

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California Energy Commission approves plans to invest nearly $500M in electricity R&D and alternative fuels

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APRIL 23, 2014

The approved 2014-2015 Investment Plan Update for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for about 40% of California''s carbon emissions. . The CPUC is expected to vote on it in December.

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ICCT-sponsored study of in-use testing of 3 Tier2-Bin5, CA LEV-II light-duty diesels finds wide variation of emissions against the limits

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JUNE 2, 2014

The test plan covered a wide variety of topological, road and ambient conditions as well as traffic densities over three major urban areas along the West coast—San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Kappanna (2014) “ In-use emissions testing of light-duty diesel vehicles in the US ”. —Thompson et al.

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Port of Los Angeles implementing Environmental Ship Index (ESI) program

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MAY 4, 2012

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners formally approved an Environmental Ship Index (ESI) program to take effect 1 July, becoming the first seaport in North America and the Pacific Rim to do so. Ship emissions are the single-largest source of air pollution from port-related operations. percent or less.

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California state agencies “rolling out carpet” for hydrogen electric vehicles

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AUGUST 1, 2014

Making the transition to cleaner, lower polluting near-zero and zero-emission vehicles is a critical component to addressing California’s clean air and climate challenges. There are currently 10 operational hydrogen refueling stations in California—the most recent opened in May 2014 on the CSU Los Angeles campus.

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6 shipping carriers become inaugural participants in Port of Los Angeles Environmental Ship Index

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Six shipping carriers have become the inaugural participants in the Port of Los Angeles Environmental Ship Index ( ESI ), an international clean air program that rewards ocean carriers for bringing their newest and cleanest vessels to the Port. Deploying ships with a Tier II or Tier III engine to the Port of Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles North America Clean Cleaning

Use These Exciting EV Charging Incentives to Fund Your Commercial Charging Station

EV Match

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The California Energy Commission awarded EVmatch , an EV charging network provider, the BESTFIT Grant to install 120 public EV chargers at multi-family locations in Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Diego Counties at no cost to the site host. Public and Private Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure. EVSE Ports. Station Locations.

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

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MAY 9, 2013

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted the 2013-2014 Investment Plan Update to support the development and use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. These charging sites will be located at 7-Eleven convenience stores, and will provide a charging network in Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties.

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California ARB Seeks Further Reductions of Diesel Emissions at State Rail Yards

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

BNSF has been operating four liquefied natural gas yard locomotives in downtown Los Angeles since the mid-1990s. Both pollutants are particularly harmful to children, the elderly and those who have preexisting health problems. NO x helps create ground-level ozone, or smog.

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California SCAQMD partnering with Livermore and Los Alamos researchers on H2 sensor demonstrations

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OCTOBER 29, 2016

The initial development of the sensors has spanned more than a decade, mostly led by teams at LLNL headed by chemist Bob Glass, until his retirement in 2014, and Eric Brosha at LANL. The project, an outgrowth of the second developmental phase of a Department of Energy project that ran from 2008-2014, ends in January.

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Study finds solo hybrid drivers in California HOV lanes amplify congestion, create up to $4,500 per car in adverse social costs annually

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

on weekdays to an already congested road such as Interstate 10 in the Los Angeles area appends $4,500 per car in annual costs (in pollution and time) to society. Policymakers could ration HOV access via congestion pricing, which could relieve congestion and improve air pollution. 6, Issue 3 doi: 10.1257/pol.6.3.1.

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CARB draft of updated AB 32 Scoping Plan for climate change actions post-2020; pushing for greater transportation reductions

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

An overview of the current science of climate change in the draft includes an expanded discussion of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane and black carbon. EPA’s “Phase I” GHG standard will reduce new vehicle emissions by about 4–5% per year from 2014–2018. Recommended transportation actions beyond 2020.

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Climate Change 2020 Climate Transportation

Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

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JUNE 28, 2013

Auxiliary power to docked ships, usually provided by on-board diesel engines, is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, accounting for one-third to one-half of the in-port emissions attributed to ocean-going vessels. Los Angeles, Calif.; —Pratt and Harris (2013). Oakland, Calif.; Portland, Ore.;

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Expects production around 2014. The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history.

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Proposed California Budget Plan Would Delay Off-Road Diesel Retrofits

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

A major provision in the proposed state budget would delay the retrofitting of off-road diesels, cutting by 17% the emissions reductions planned by 2014. Without retrofitting existing construction vehicles, Los Angeles, the San Joaquin Valley and other highly polluted regions will be unlikely to meet federal air quality deadlines.

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Study finds airplane traffic a major contributor to particle pollution in Los Angeles

Port of Los Angeles surpasses 2023 pollution reduction targets five years ahead of schedule; NOx down 60% from 2005

CARB approves updated “At-Berth” regulation, expanding efforts to cut pollution from ships in California ports

Study: ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant

California Air Resources Board settles with COSCO Container Lines for $965,000; >2,600 air quality violations from 2014-2017

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines pays $253K to CARB for violating at-berth regulations

US MARAD study finds marine use of natural gas substantially reduces some air pollutants and slightly reduces GHG emissions

California ARB approves first commercially ready at-berth ship emissions capturing system; alternative to shore power

Give Me A #BreakFreeLA & Then Give Me 100% Renewables RIGHT NOW

US EPA settles with three trucking companies over California diesel rule; $201K in penalties

Study links ambient PM2.5 and ozone specifically caused by vehicle exhaust emissions to ~361,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015

California Energy Commission approves plans to invest nearly $500M in electricity R&D and alternative fuels

ICCT-sponsored study of in-use testing of 3 Tier2-Bin5, CA LEV-II light-duty diesels finds wide variation of emissions against the limits

Port of Los Angeles implementing Environmental Ship Index (ESI) program

California state agencies “rolling out carpet” for hydrogen electric vehicles

6 shipping carriers become inaugural participants in Port of Los Angeles Environmental Ship Index

Use These Exciting EV Charging Incentives to Fund Your Commercial Charging Station

California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

California ARB Seeks Further Reductions of Diesel Emissions at State Rail Yards

California SCAQMD partnering with Livermore and Los Alamos researchers on H2 sensor demonstrations

Study finds solo hybrid drivers in California HOV lanes amplify congestion, create up to $4,500 per car in adverse social costs annually

CARB draft of updated AB 32 Scoping Plan for climate change actions post-2020; pushing for greater transportation reductions

Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Proposed California Budget Plan Would Delay Off-Road Diesel Retrofits

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