Cleaning Up America's Ports
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) puts it: “Port authorities and other port operators have an important role to play in mitigating” emissions.
Sustainability Consultancy Tunley Environmental, which recently produced a detailed net zero carbon emissions strategy for Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority, is seeing increasing demands from ports around the U.S. to create plans for greater sustainability, especially with significant funding opportunities provided plans are put in place in good time.
Tunley Environmental senior carbon reduction scientist Dr. Robert Moorcroft, who led the Detroit/Wayne County project, says America is starting to catch up with other nations in its focus on port sustainability.
“In the past, America might not have been as interested in taking action to improve port sustainability as some other regions of the world but today there is more and more appetite, particularly in the Midwest. There is increasing pressure from local communities as well as from consumers who are demanding action.
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