Providing the final step in approval, the Port of Los Angeles harbor commission on Thursday, Nov. 21, approved a cooperative agreement with the South Coast Air Quality Management District that commits the port — and the neighboring Port of Long Beach whose commissioners approved the agreement earlier this month — to developing and implementing zero-emissions infrastructure.

Both commissions gave unanimous approval to the agreement that offered a substitute to the earlier so-called Indirect Source Rule being considered by the agency that opponents believed would have put caps on port cargo.

Port of L.A. Executive Director Gene Seroka called it a “landmark agreement” that will provide the framework going forward as both ports aim for a zero-emissions future.

“We’re turning the page from r

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