Sentence examples for port pollution from inspiring English sources

Noting that both trucks and ships contribute to port pollution, he said, "we got involved because the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the single biggest contributors to air pollution in the L.A. area, and that's because of diesel pollution".

A scheme of the online monitoring system for the ship discharging pollution is designed based on AIS (Automatic Identification System) information, Using the received real-time AIS information and the ship pollution solution model, the distribution of port pollution can be derived.

An 86-mile road will link the mine to a new deepwater industrial port in Cook Inlet, increasing ship traffic and port pollution and further pressuring the Inlet's dwindling population of critically endangered beluga whales.

Environmental, community, and public health groups have long pressured Los Angeles and Long Beach port authorities to take action on port pollution.

With three of the country's five largest harbors in California, Bailey says, cutting port pollution and the health impacts on surrounding communities is a "huge priority" for the state.

Every year port-related pollution in Greater LA causes 1,200 deaths -- a statistic directly connected to the miserable working conditions for drivers, who cannot afford the high cost of maintaining their trucks.

An EHP study published online 13 January 2006 found a relationship between postneonatal mortality from respiratory causes and long-term exposure to PM2.5 in California (although the study did not specifically address areas affected by port-related pollution, about a third of the infants studied were born in Southern California).

Not only do the trucks account for much of the port's air pollution (even though they are dramatically cleaner than just a decade ago), but they clog up stretches of the I-710 freeway, wasting precious time.

The Ria de Aveiro, a lagoon located in the NW coast of Portugal, presents a wide range of changes to the natural hydrodynamical and physicochemical conditions induced for instance by works of port engineering and pollution.

Other significant threats include coastal development, agricultural run-off pollution, port-based shipping activities, illegal fishing and outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish.

A precautionary approach to port-related air pollution would encourage local production of goods in order to reduce marine traffic, greener design for new terminals, and state-of-the art approaches to emissions-control that have been successfully demonstrated at ports throughout the world.