{"id":7937,"date":"2010-03-31T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2010\/03\/31\/helping-hand-to-cut-emissions-at-north-americas-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:37:35","slug":"helping-hand-to-cut-emissions-at-north-americas-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/helping-hand-to-cut-emissions-at-north-americas-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping hand to cut emissions at North Americas ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations\u2019 agency adopted the rules on Friday, three years after California implemented a similar plan extending 24 miles from the state&#8217;s coast.<br \/>State Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, who rallied 55 state lawmakers to formally support the IMO effort, said: &#8220;This will have a huge impact on cleaning up our air in Long Beach and Los Angeles and at seaport communities across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been actively working to cut emissions since 2005, introducing programmes that rewarded shippers that reduced speed within 20 miles of the harbour and offering discounts for calls from low-sulphur ships.<\/p>\n<p>The South Coast Air Quality Management District estimates freight ships visiting Long Beach and Los Angeles pump more than 7,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides, 4,500 tonnes of sulphur oxides and 675 tonnes of carbon monoxides into the surrounding air each year.<\/p>\n<p>The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates the rule will cut deadly particulate exhausts by 85% and nitrogen oxides by 80%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Canadian ports are to benefit from an International Maritime Organisation ruling forcing ships within 200 miles of North America\u2019s coastline to burn low-sulphur bunker fuel from 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7937","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\/7937","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=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7939,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions\/7939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}