{"id":10052,"date":"2008-10-06T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2008\/10\/06\/epa-selects-charleston-for-port-emissions-reduction\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:53:00","slug":"epa-selects-charleston-for-port-emissions-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/americas-greenport\/epa-selects-charleston-for-port-emissions-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA selects Charleston for port emissions reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The air emissions inventory estimates the amount of air <\/span> pollutants generated by activity <\/span> through the Port of Charleston\u2019s <\/span> public marine terminals in 2005 <\/span> and provides useful information <\/span> on air quality for the Port <\/span> of Charleston\u2019s customers, <\/span> environmental regulators and <\/span> neighbours. <\/span> Moffatt & Nichol of Long <\/span> Beach, Calif. assembled the <\/span> inventory, which covers emissions <\/span> related to ships, trucks, trains, <\/span> harbour craft and cargo handling <\/span> equipment all the way from the sea <\/span> buoy outside Charleston Harbor <\/span> throughout the tri-county region. <\/span> \u201cAs better jobs come to the <\/span> Charleston area through port <\/span> development at the former <\/span> Navy Base, the Ports Authority <\/span> remains committed to protecting <\/span> the environment and being a <\/span> good neighbor,\u201d said Groseclose. <\/span> \u201cWe\u2019ve accomplished much to <\/span> improve air quality over the past <\/span> 18 months, and this inventory will <\/span> help us to focus our future efforts.\u201d <\/span> Specifically, the new Baseline <\/span> Air Emissions Inventory will: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Allow the community to more accurately understand <\/span> emissions sources related to port <\/span> activities, including their relative <\/span> contribution to overall regional <\/span> emissions; <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Establish a baseline of emissions for the SCSPA and the <\/span> community to track progress <\/span> over time as new technology <\/span> and efficiency improvements are <\/span> implemented; and <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Help the Port, its customers and other transportation companies <\/span> target future emissions reduction <\/span> efforts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

An air emissions inventory <\/span> is essentially an estimate of the <\/span> amount of pollutants that a group <\/span> of sources produces over a defined <\/span> period of time in a particular area. <\/span> In the Port of Charleston\u2019s case, <\/span> the emissions inventory presents <\/span> estimated amounts of five different <\/span> pollutants in 2005: particulate <\/span> matter (PM) smaller than 1 <\/span> microns and a subset smaller than <\/span> 2.5 microns, oxides of nitrogen <\/span> (NOX), total organic gases, carbon <\/span> monoxide (CO) and sulphur <\/span> dioxide (SO2). <\/span> The key finding, as expected, is <\/span> that trucks and ships constitute the <\/span> majority of each pollutant related <\/span> to port operations. <\/span> Port-related emissions today <\/span> are already lower than the report\u2019s <\/span> findings. Since 2005, the SCSPA <\/span> has taken on numerous projects to <\/span> reduce port-related air emissions, <\/span> including: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Replacing diesel-fuelled cranes and equipment with electric <\/span> cranes and cleaner fuels. Just <\/span> this spring, four giant diesel <\/span> container cranes left the port <\/span> after being replaced by all electric <\/span> models, eliminating their <\/span> diesel emissions. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Along with nine other transportation firms, switching <\/span> to ultra-low sulphur diesel with <\/span> 15 parts per million (ppm) <\/span> sulphur content, instead of fuel <\/span> containing as much as 500 ppm. <\/span> This voluntary move came more <\/span> than two years ahead of a federal <\/span> mandate for non-road diesel <\/span> equipment. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Reducing truck idling, decreasing truck trips on local <\/span> roads and lessening construction <\/span> impacts <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Being one of five U.S. ports selected for the national <\/span> Environmental Management <\/span> System project. <\/span><\/p>\n

While the latest available inventories for the region indicate <\/span> that port-related emissions account <\/span> for 5% or less of total pollutants in <\/span> the tri-county area, the SCSPA is <\/span> moving ahead with other measures <\/span> to reduce emissions. <\/span> \u201cEveryone has a role in <\/span> our region\u2019s air quality,\u201d said <\/span> Groseclose, \u201cand we should all do <\/span> our share to keep our air clean.\u201d <\/span> For the 2005 Port of Charleston <\/span> Baseline Air Emissions Inventory <\/span> and more information the <\/span> SCSPA\u2019s air quality initiatives, visit <\/span> the SCSPA\u2019s Pledge for Growth <\/span> website <\/span><\/p>\n

www.scspa.com <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a separate development, the US Environmental Protection Agency has selected the SCSPA as one of seven recipients in the region to receive emissions reduction grant funds. The SCSPA, in partnership with three business groups, DHEC and the American Lung Association, applied for a two-year, $1.7-million project to reduce air impacts from on-road trucks and port container stacking equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}