{"id":1778,"date":"2015-12-11T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2015-12-11T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:10:06","slug":"depts-of-environment-transportation-md-port-administration-announce-clean-green-ports-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2015\/12\/11\/depts-of-environment-transportation-md-port-administration-announce-clean-green-ports-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Depts of Environment & Transportation, MD Port Administration announce Clean & Green Ports agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"
MEDIA CONTACTS:<\/span><\/h5>\n

Jay Apperson<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(410) 537-3003<\/a>
\njay.apperson@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

Depts of Environment & Transportation, MD Port Administration announce Clean & Green Ports agreement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

EPA presents grant funding to assist in lowering emissions from Port operations<\/em><\/p>\n

Baltimore, MD (December 11, 2015<\/span><\/span>) \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>State officials\u00a0today announced Maryland\u2019s commitment to cooperative efforts that will protect our environment while sustaining and advancing the economic health of the Port of Baltimore.<\/p>\n

The Maryland\u00a0Department of the Environment has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) and MDOT\u2019s Maryland Port Administration, officials announced at the Dundalk Marine Terminal.\u00a0The agreement is designed to create opportunities to secure funding from the non-profit sector or the federal government for programs that reduce air emissions.<\/p>\n

Shawn Garvin, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3 Administrator, presented grant funding of $870,000 to be used for one such program: replacing trucks coming in and out of the port with new, cleaner trucks with lower emissions. Other possibilities for reducing emissions could come through programs such as a locomotive idling reduction program, the use of solar panels or the electrification of cargo-handling activities at the Port.<\/p>\n

“Our partnership with the port means cleaner air and a stronger economy for the region. Environmental stewardship with ships, trucks, trains and machines\u00a0here at home opens the door to a healthier bay and community\u00a0and becomes a shining example for other ports around the world,” Secretary of the Environment Ben Grumbles said.<\/p>\n

The Port of Baltimore supports more than 13,600 direct jobs and nearly 130,000 jobs in our state that are linked to the Port.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, working with our partners, the Port of Baltimore has committed to growing business and being a good neighbor,\u201d said Transportation Secretary Pete K. Rahn.<\/p>\n

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MEDIA CONTACTS: Jay Apperson (410) 537-3003 jay.apperson@maryland.gov Depts of Environment & Transportation, MD Port Administration announce Clean & Green Ports agreement EPA presents grant funding to assist in lowering emissions from Port operations Baltimore, MD (December 11, 2015) \u2013\u00a0State officials\u00a0today announced Maryland\u2019s commitment to cooperative efforts that will protect our environment while sustaining and advancing  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,14,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clean-air-2","category-epa","category-press-release","category-secretary-grumbles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}