Port Headline RoundUp
Headlines since the last installation...***=new addition
Life on the Edge: More Port Pollution News
Daily Breeze: Oropeza Proposes Bond to Decrease Port Pollution
Daily Breeze: Harbor Air Pollution Tops Agenda
Business Wire: Port Approves Six Projects Estimated to Eliminate More Than 430 Tons of Air Pollutants
***Daily Breeze: Forum Addresses Harbor Area Cargo Yard Concerns, Fears
Life on the Edge: Bridge to Breakwater - Final Scoping Meeting
LA Business Journal: Ports Handling Holiday Shipments
Daily Breeze: Contest Suggested for a Port "Anchor"
From CNS: Port Vehicles
SAN PEDRO (CNS) - The Port of Los Angeles will purchase road haul trucks and in-port cargo handling equipment running on alternative fuel sources in an attempt to reduce air pollution, officials said today.
Harbor Commission members were briefed today on the nearly $20 million plan to purchase vehicles running on liquefied natural gas, compressed natural gas, electric power and other alternative fuel sources, including hydrogen fuel cells and bio fuels.
"This groundbreaking shift away from diesel-powered trucks and yard equipment in and around the Port of Los Angeles is what I mean by clean growth,'' Harbor Commission President S. David Freeman. "We have some funds to move forward in this new direction, but we are also looking forward to partnering with the Air Resources Board and the South Coast Air Quality Management District for both technical and financial support.''
Posted by Anonymous @ 10/14/2005 07:36:00 AM
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Growing pot in California is illegal. Why did they have the roundups? Hippies better stop growing those illegal plants. It is odd this story made a headline, usually potheads write about pot.
It's not "pot" - it's "spot" - the spot on your lungs that is growing with every breath. The spot in your throat and on your MRI. That dreaded x-ray. You think the spot won't get you? Don't be so sure.
It's not "spot" - it's "sport" - seeing how much profit at the expense of public health and living standards you can get away with before you get caught.
Note the articles in today's Daily Breeze and Los Angeles Times reporting on Harbor Commission Freeman's comments on Larry Mantle's radio show on KPCC yesterday.
President Freeman, and other Commissioners, have made bold and ground breaking statements on the Port's future policies on air pollution.
They face a huge management challenge in getting their staff, whose culture does not accept these things, and the stunningly uncooperative shipping industry and railroads, to actually make these things happen. In the end, actions will obviously speak louder than words.
Even so, it seems clearer and clearer that President Freeman is serious in what he is saying. He has been absolutely willing to say these things on the record, so that all of it is clearly documented to haunt him if it doesn't happen. It takes a lot of political courage to even do that.
It is particularly encouraging to hear President Freeman's forceful comments about Environmental Justice. This is a concept which has traditionally been paid lip service and received no real response. He seem pretty serious about this as well.
It is a great credit to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that he has appointed people who are beginning to attack this huge mess head on. One cannot say too often in this arena that actions speak louder than words, but the winds of change to seem to be beginning to stir at the Port.
MAV will need to give powerful and unswerving support to these brave Commissioners as they take on this task, which many say cannot be done.
It CAN be done, and, if and when it is, MAV and his Commissioners will be rightly recognized as having saved thousands of lives, prevented hundreds of thousands of illnesses, and performed a service beyond price for the City of Los Angeles and all of Southern California.
I agree, and I hope this commission is successful in this task. Time is of the essence.
Let's see who jumps on board with them. Hopefully, the media will.
I wish them great power and Godspeed. Our lives depend on it.
I also hope Freeman's tough words are backed up with long-delayed leadership and action. Time will tell. But maybe the dynamics have changed. Freeman is older, wiser, and generally speaking once people are in the twilight of their caeeers, legacy looms large.
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