{"id":429780,"date":"2010-03-15T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/transportation\/?p=359"},"modified":"2010-03-15T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:44:03","slug":"how-to-clean-up-freight-see-our-new-report-the-good-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429780","title":{"rendered":"How to Clean Up Freight? See our New Report “The Good Haul”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, we released The Good Haul<\/em><\/a>, a report that highlights how clean freight innovations improve reliability, while also reducing freight-related health and environmental risks.<\/p>\n

The U.S. freight system needs to be modernized in a way that reduces environmental impacts. The Good Haul<\/em> <\/strong>[PDF] <\/strong><\/a>profiles 28 projects, programs, and technologies<\/strong> around the U.S. and internationally that do just that. That is, they have simultaneously increased freight reliability while lowering air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

These cases studies include practice changes, like eco-driving<\/a>, as well as new technologies, like the Port of Virginia\u2019s hybrid diesel locomotive<\/a>. The case studies also include large, planned freight hub clean up projects, such as the CREATE program in Chicago <\/a>and the Clean Air Action Plan<\/a> at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.<\/p>\n

None of the projects highlighted in The Good Haul<\/em> are industry standards or have been adopted broadly, but they ought to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Funding is one of the barriers to widespread adoption of these practices, technologies and projects. Smart, directed, public investments that demand a better freight transportation system that also<\/em> reduce pollution, can chip away at this barrier. The federal transportation bill now being drafted by Congress is one place to begin this smart approach.<\/p>\n

Freight is the fastest growing transportation sector<\/strong>, and as we discussed in a post last week<\/a>, pollution from freight\u2014everything from trucks to tugboats to rail locomotives\u2014is a huge health and environmental challenge.<\/p>\n

Over the next few weeks, we\u2019ll profile several of the innovations highlighted in our report. Stay tuned for examples<\/strong> that prove that that U.S. freight system can be cleaner and<\/em> more efficient at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Today, we released The Good Haul, a report that highlights how clean freight innovations improve reliability, while also reducing freight-related health and environmental risks. The U.S. freight system needs to be modernized in a way that reduces environmental impacts. The Good Haul [PDF] profiles 28 projects, programs, and technologies around the U.S. and internationally that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}