{"id":4662,"date":"2009-11-14T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2009\/11\/14\/houston-clean-air-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:41:30","slug":"houston-clean-air-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2009\/11\/14\/houston-clean-air-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston clean air funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The funding is an important element in PHA\u2019s Clean Air Strategy Plan efforts and will help tackle emissions from the goods movement sector, including drayage trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Drayage trucks are diesel fuelled, heavy-duty trucks that transport shipping containers. The DERA award will fund a bridge loan program that provides resources for retrofits or for newer, less-polluting trucks. The program targets owners of the more than 3,000 trucks operating at the Port of Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Over the life of the program, the following emission reductions are anticipated: 1638 tons of nitrous oxide; 26.7 tons of particulate matter; 27.4 tons of volatile organic compounds; 239 tons of carbon monoxide; and 3636 tons of carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em>www.portofhouston.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $9 million Smart Way Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) was awarded to the Houston- Galveston Area Council (HGAC), following the efforts of the Port of Houston Authority (PHA), H-GAC and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}