{"id":7252,"date":"2004-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2004\/10\/01\/arnie-vetoes-air-pollution-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:31:49","slug":"arnie-vetoes-air-pollution-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/arnie-vetoes-air-pollution-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnie vetoes air pollution bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists are accusing him of choosing big business over clean air but shipping circles have supported the veto promising they would continue to introduce changes that would improve air quality in the port complex, including use of coldironing equipment allowing ships to shut off their engines in port and plug into shoreside power.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would have required the ports to develop a programme severely restricting air emissions from ships, cargo handling equipment, locomotives, and commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Port executives have complained that many of the sources of pollution concerned are beyond the ports&#8217; control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have required the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to severely curb their air pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252","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=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}