ORGANIZATION – ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Ports & Goods Movement
The Coalition For A Safe Environment has achieved many accomplishments in its own Environmental Justice Campaigns, collaborative organizations campaigns and in supporting other community organization campaigns and legal challenges.
Port of Los Angeles (POLA) & Port of Long Beach (POLB)
- Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) 1st in US
- Clean Truck Program (CTP) Replace 16,600+ Old Deisel Trucks With 2007 or Newer
Models 1st in US
- Alternative Marine Power (AMP) Ship Electric Shorepower Terminal 1st in US
- Technology Advancement Program (TAP) New Technology Demonstration Grants
1st in US
- Two Zero Emissions Drayage Truck Demonstration Projects 1st in the US
- Advanced Maritime Emission Control System (AMECS) Ship Exhaust Emissions Capture Demonstration Project (POLB) 1st in the US
- Water Resources Action Plan (WRAP) 1st in the US
- Ship Speed Reduction Program (SSRP) 1st in the US
- 10MW Solar Energy Plan (POLA) 1st in the US
- Creation of three $5 million LB Community Mitigation Funds (POLB) Including Health Care 1st in the US
- Stopped the 1st LNG Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach
- Stopped the All American Pipeline Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles
Port of Los Angeles China Shipping Terminal Settlement
- $60+ million Court Settlement Fund
- $10 million Wilmington Community Mitigation ( $3.1 million Wilmington Youth Sailing Center )
- $10 million San Pedro Community Mitigation
- $10 million Harbor Gateway Truck Retrofit Fund
- Establishment of the 1st Port Community Advisory Committee in the US
- Terminal to be built with electric shore power
- 70% of ships to be retrofitted for electric shore power
- All cargo handling equipment changed to alternative natural gas or electric.
- $1.50-$3.50 Container Fee
Port of Los Angeles TraPac Terminal Settlement
- $50 million Potential PreCourt Mitigation Settlement Fund
- Creation of Harbor Community Benfit Foundation (HCBF) to Administer Off-Port
Property Mitigation
- Approved $6 million Public School Air Purification Systems For Wilmington & San Pedro
- Approved $ 500,000 Wilmington Community Health Care Grants
- Approved $ 300,000 Land Use Study (Comprehensive Off-Port Community Impact Nexus Study)
- Approved $ 200,000 Wilmington Community Noise study
- Fund Future Wetlands Restoration Study
- Fund Future JobTraining & Development Training Programs
- Require future expansion projects to contribute to the HCBF
- $1.50-$3.50 Container Fee & Bulk Cargo Fee ($.15 Per Barrel of Imported Oil)
Wilmington Community Negotiated Mitigation With City, Port & State
- $ 200 million Wilmington Waterfront Park POLA Buffer Project ( Grand Opening 6-4-2011 Phase I a new
30 Acre Green Space Park)
- City ban on new container storage yard locations in residential areas and new zoning requirements
- City ban on new auto recyclers (Junk Yards)
- New no truck route signs
- New over 6,000lb truck prohibited signs
- New no overnight and community residential area truck parking signs
- CHP and Port police to monitor port trucks in Wilmington & San Pedro communities
- 2,000 cubic yards of new Wilmington community public street asphalt paving each year
Petroleum Industry Accomplishments
- Stopped the 1st Hydrogen Power Plant from being built at the City of Carson BP/ARCO Oil Refinery
- Help stop construction of the 1st LNG Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles
- Help stop construction of the 1st LNG Terminal at the Port of Long Beach
- Help close down the Kinder Morgan Fuel Storage Tank Farm in San Pedro
- Negotiated a Carson Community Benefits Agreement with Kinder Morgan Fuel Tank Farm in Carson
- Supported the adoption of a more stringent South Coast AQMD Rule 1118 to reduce refinery Flaring and require a Flare Reduction Plan
- Fought to require the new Port of Los Angeles Pacific L.A. Oil Marine Terminal to be the greenest in the world and help caused the project to be canceled
- Port of Los Angeles Pacific L.A. Oil Marine Terminal announces it will not build terminal
- Fought to support the California Air Resources Board to adopt a new low carbon fuel standard
- Negotiated the 1st Imported Crude Oil $ .15 Per Barrel/Metric Ton Community Mitigation Fee At Port of Los Angeles