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Editorial: Port pollution is a crisis. It's going to take more than a $20 container fee to fix

Por: Los Angeles Times Opinion October 26, 2022

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Dirty air is a long-standing problem at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, but data released this month show just how bad things got in 2021. A pandemic-induced surge in consumer sales, record-setting volumes of cargo and a logjam of more than 100 ships anchored off the Southern California coast that fouled the air with even more harmful diesel pollution than usual. A lot more. At the Port of L.A., cancer-causing diesel particulate matter... + full article



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