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Pressure rises on Port of San Diego to curb air pollution from shipping industry


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Massive cranes mounted on a Dole Food Co. cargo ship hoisted containers at the Port of San Diego on Thursday, powered not by the ocean-going vessel’s hulking diesel engines but electricity.
Before the port’s anchor-tenant started plugging its freighters into “shore power” at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal in Barrio Logan, pollution was noticeably worse, said Todd Post, lead mechanic at the terminal.
“My truck would be parked here with soot all over it,” said Post, a stevedore with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 29, who was overseeing operations Thursday.
Industrial businesses at the port have repeatedly blamed heavy traffic on Interstate 5 and the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge for the pollution that’s long plagued nearby communities. ....

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