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Lawsuit filed over port air pollution

Thousands sick after government failed to regulate emissions, group says.

By Kristopher Hanson, Staff writer

LOS ANGELES - A new lawsuit blasts the federal government for failing to regulate diesel ship emissions despite evidence that air pollution around harbor communities is sickening thousands annually.

The suit, filed Wednesday in Washington, D.C., by San Francisco-based Friends of the Earth, accuses the Environmental Protection Agency of repeatedly putting off new pollution controls on oceangoing vessels visiting U.S. seaports….([1] Full Story)
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folc.ca: At 27,000 parts per million, bunker fuel used by diesel-powered ships contains 1,800 times as much sulphur by volume than does ultra-low-sulphur (ULS) Diesel at 15 parts per million used by highway trucks.

Even Diesel locomotives don’t use ULS Diesel. The sulphur content of Diesel fuel used by locomotives contains upward from 300-500 ppm of sulphur, thereby contributing to sulphur-dioxide-polluted air.

It appears that in effect the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adamantly protects a system for waste-sulphur disposal through dispersion in the environment.