The Clean Air Action Plan, designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles, will add billions of dollars to supply chain costs, the National Industrial Transportation League said.
The league joined approximately 70 other organizations in a letter sent to the environmental directors of the ports.
“While the ports and stakeholders must continue to build upon the successes achieved so far, we are significantly concerned with several aspects of the Draft Clean Air Action Plan Update,” the organizations said. “These include the lack of information with respect to the commercial availability of specified technologies, the uncertainty of the draft plan’s cost, the absence of any analysis regarding the ports’ future competitiveness, the exclusion of certain technologies and fuels, and the lack of a cost benefit analysis on the air quality benefits that would result from this program. Ironically, these are issues which are identified within the report, but for the most part deemed unimportant.”
The ports cannot add additional costs to the supply chain without programs to offset the costs for shippers and cargo ships, the organizations said. The plan would cost a minimum of $14 billion, the organizations said.