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| Amid supply-chain logjams, infrastructure bill allocates $250M to target truck emissions at ports |
| 2021-11-15 |
| [Just the News] Deja vu, nation wide This week's Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the Biden Administration and members of Congress who voted for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes $250 million for reducing truck emissions at port facilities, which have been crippled by record-breaking cargo backlogs for months. Critics have attributed the bottlenecks to draconian California emissions standards that exclude up to half the nation's truckers from transporting shipping containers to and from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's two busiest, which together account for close to one third of total U.S. shipping cargo volume. The 2,000-plus page Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which President Biden is scheduled to sign on Monday, includes $50 million in funding per year for the next five fiscal years aimed at reducing emissions at ports. Section 11402 of the bill, "Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities," calls for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to "establish a program to reduce idling at port facilities." The bill calls for the transportation secretary to study how "ports and intermodal port transfer facilities would benefit from increased opportunities to reduce emissions at ports, including through the electrification of port operations." In particular, the secretary is to study emerging technologies and procedures that would help reduce emissions at ports from idling trucks. The $250 million will fund ways to "test, evaluate, and deploy projects that reduce port-related emissions from idling trucks, including through the advancement of port electrification and improvements in efficiency, focusing on port operations, including heavy-duty commercial vehicles, and other related projects." Port facilities may not only face new meddling from the Transportation Department, but the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department may also be consulted by Buttigieg as part of the reduced emissions program, according to the text of the bill. Related: Infrastructure bill: 2021-11-07 House passes Infrastructure Bill, a.k.a., BIF with help from 13 Republicans Infrastructure bill: 2021-11-06 Pelosi forced to abandon Friday vote on immense social spending bill amid resistance from moderates Infrastructure bill: 2021-11-04 Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine blames 'purist' demands by congressional Democrats |
| Posted by:Grains Thoth4833 |
| #4 It will look good on his next Amazon special; simply CGI the freighters into fetish barges. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-11-15 14:36 |
| #3 Try controlling the emissions from all those Chinese freighter ships. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-11-15 12:00 |
| #2 Did no one read it? "Had to pass it..." etc |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 07:38 |
| #1 Bad optics. Did no one read it? Will somebody explain it to Joe? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2021-11-15 02:55 |