The Port of Los Angeles has been given an “unprecedented” $412 million grant in an effort to curb pollution and adopt more zero-emission equipment and infrastructure, said the port on Oct. 29.
The City of Los Angeles’s Harbor Department will use the funds from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Ports Program to replace diesel-powered equipment with battery-electric cargo-handling equipment and zero-emission drayage trucks.
In addition, the port will buy and install charging infrastructure, solar power generation infrastructure, as well as battery energy storage systems.
Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, the EPA said in an Oct. 29 statement that the investments “will advance environmental justice” by reducing diesel air pollution near U.S. ports….