Port cities look to clear air after deal on ship emissions
McClatchy-Tribune (SCMP)
Sept 9, 2009
The five-storey-tall engines on ocean-going vessels burn some of the dirtiest oil – bottom-of-the-barrel bunker – and churn out a substantial amount of the air pollution in American port cities, coastal communities along shipping lanes and places hundreds of kilometres inland.
Now the United States and Canada are nearing an international agreement to clean up the emissions of ships travelling within 200 nautical miles of shore. Scientists at the US Environmental Protection Agency calculate that pollution controls will save the lives of 8,300 people each year and help more than 3 million avoid respiratory problems…
