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The Los Angeles and Long Beach port communities: Hot spots for polluted air
A look at one polluted region targeted for clean-air priority under California’s environmental justice law by the numbers.
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Before oil spill, Long Beach approved 20-year pipeline pump station lease
The renewed agreement with Amplify Energy could keep the pipeline responsible for the spill in operation through 2040.
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As oil prices crashed, tankers idled off California—spewing pollution for weeks
This scrum of oil tankers, right next to the Los Angeles basin, emitted tons of air pollutants and CO2 while they were parked.
Oslo asks: How low can a port's GHG emissions go?
The Port of Oslo aims to slash emissions 85 percent by 2030: “It’s what is necessary if we are going to reach the Paris Agreement.”
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Experts say LA in danger of mega storm
Scientists call it California's "other big one," and they say it could cause three times as much damage as a major earthquake ripping along the San Andreas.
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The shipping industry emits as much carbon as all of Germany. That's unacceptable
The Paris agreement left out carbon-capping goals for international marine shipping, but a pact reached in London puts a high-polluting sector on a positive path.
L.A., Long Beach ports adopt plan to slash air pollution and go zero-emissions
The nation’s largest port complex will cut health-damaging and planet-warming air pollution by phasing out diesel trucks and equipment in favor of natural gas, then zero-emissions technology.
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