The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it received $11.6 million in grants to help truck owners serving the Port of New York and New Jersey to replace their trucks built before 1994.
The $9.8 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the $1.8 million grant from the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority will help the port authority implement the first parts of its Comprehensive Clean Air Strategy, it said in a statement Thursday.
The grant money will add to the $21 million the port authority has already set aside to replace pre-1994 trucks. Through the program, the port authority hopes to replace 636 trucks.
About 16% of the trucks that serve the Port of New York and New Jersey were built before 1994, the port authority said. Those trucks contribute 33% of the port's particulate matter, 14% of its NOx and 10% of its greenhouse gas emissions each year.
Replacing the trucks will reduce emissions at the port by 118 tons of NOx, 14 tons of respirable particular matter and 1,675 tons of greenhouse gasses each year, the port authority estimates.
