Environmental justice policies are designed to lessen and mitigate adverse health and environmental impacts on minority and low-income populations and to ensure community involvement in the decision-making process during project development.
The US$1.2bn Middle Harbour redevelopment project is currently under construction. It combines two older terminals into one state-of-the-art facility that doubles capacity while cutting air pollution in half from previous levels. It is part of the Port’s US$4.5bn capital improvement programme to modernise and upgrade Port facilities during the decade, with an emphasis on environmental sustainability.
During the planning phases of Middle Harbour, the Port of Long Beach and US Army Corps of Engineers staff conducted an environmental justice analysis to study the potential for project construction and operations to result in disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on low-income and minority populations. Disproportionately high and adverse impacts to environmental justice communities were related to construction noise, and cumulative impacts to air quality and health risk.
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