Communities for Clean Ports (CCP) is a public resource for individuals and organizations fighting to end the port-related pollution that poisons people, fouls the environment and costs billions of dollars – and that is about to explode as port-related trade triples over the next 15 years. CCP works alongside allied organizations large and small—from environmental and community groups, to social and economic justice organizations, to organized labor and other advocates for workers.

Like no other issue, Port Pollution Poisoning directly and intimately connects the daily lives of real people to environmental action, public health, and social and economic justice. Ending port pollution – and the unjustifiable health and economic tax it levies on innocent working people in port communities – is a moral imperative.

The time to act is now. Cleaner technologies, equipment and alternative fuels are affordable, viable and on the market – and would immediately and drastically reduce Port Pollution Poisoning. All that’s lacking is immediate, significant action by the port-related and goods movement industries – the trucking, shipping, rail and other transportation and retail companies who have increased their profits for years by shifting the massive economic and health costs of port pollution to their fellow Americans living and working in port regions.  Please visit CleanPorts.org and find out how you can help.

Recent Initiatives

Communities for Clean Ports educates, collaborates, and advocates towards finding clean, sustainable, and eventually zero-carbon, non-polluting alternatives to the current goods movement system—We work on technology, fuel and infrastructure solutions for the now, next generation, and our 2050 future and beyond.

Learn more about our current initiatives here:

Clean Trucks Campaign Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach

Heavy duty trucks are the largest source of NOx pollution in the Southern California basin and are a triple threat given their contribution to smog, asthma and respiratory illness, and climate change.  Communities for Clean Ports’ Clean Trucks campaign, through public education, stakeholder collaboration and policy maker education, works to ensure that the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Clean Trucks Program always considers the strongest environmentally and socially responsible policy options.

CCP is carefully watching and assessing the implementation of the Ports’ Clean Trucks Program and other Southern California goods movement fuel, technology, and infrastructure opportunities for now, next generation, and 2050 low and zero-pollution alternatives.

A clean and sustainable Port trucking plan will make a significant difference to the Bay Area air quality and economy today, and move us one step closer to goods movement, people movement and energy systems that are not harmful to our environment and communities.