Federal court blocks Port emissions law

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A court ruled against a January 7th ruling to improve the air quality on ocean cargo vessels coming into California

<state w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />California</place /></state /> air quality regulators lost a battle to regulate emission standards on ships entering their ports.  This decision invalidates a law from January 2007, which requires ships to use different fuel within 24 miles of the coast.  State authorities may appeal the decision because they feel that the increasing cargo traffic from <place w:st="on" />Asia</place /> is negatively affecting the environment. Gennet Paauwe, a CARB spokesperson, stated “We feel this is a temporary setback, the emissions coming from large ocean-going ships are a large source of pollution in <state w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />California</place /></state /> and a source we intend to continue to try and reduce.”   The article states, “Bunker fuel contains sulfur content as high as 27,000 parts per million, compared to the 15 parts-per-million maximum allowable in diesel used by cars and trucks in the <country-region w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />United States</place /></country-region />.” The air quality cases will continue in the court system between the air quality regulators and the ocean container vessel companies. 9 application/xml false Air Quality California Green Logistics Ocean Cargo Supply Chain Federal court blocks Port emissions law Press-Telegram http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_8386514 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish 208.105.4.154 false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 165493 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web