What you need to know: The Biden-Harris Administration is granting more than $1 billion to California’s ports to accelerate their transition to zero-emission operations and create good paying jobs.

SACRAMENTO - California ports are about to become cleaner and more climate friendly thanks to new funding from the Biden-Harris Administration. 

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced seven California ports are receiving more than $1 billion to build zero-emission infrastructure and implement plans to clean up air quality. California ports received a third of the total funding announced today nationwide. The Port of Los Angeles is receiving the nation’s largest clean ports grant of $411 million, which will help the port shift to zero-emission operations. 

Thanks to historic support from the Biden-Harris Administration and our state’s Congressional leaders, California’s ports are undergoing a rapid transition to become zero-emission. Cleaner ports means cleaner air for communities up and down our state - this is a huge win for our ports that are the backbone of the fifth largest economy in the world. - Governor Gavin Newsom

California’s ports handle about 40% of the nation’s containerized imports and 30% of America’s exports. This funding is key to Governor Newsom’s build more, faster infrastructure agenda. See projects in your community at build.ca.gov.  

California ports receiving funding from the federal Clean Ports Program include:

- Port of Los Angeles - $411.69 million: This project aims to accelerate the port’s transition toward ZE on-terminal operations by significantly reducing air pollution in and around the port, deploying ZE cargo handling equipment (CHE), and enhancing electric vehicle charging infrastructure. 

- Port of Oakland - $322.17 million: This project will support the vision of reducing emissions and fully decarbonizing port acti­­vities by transitioning to ZE alternatives for drayage trucks and cargo handling equipment.  

- Port of Stockton - $110.47 million: This project will transform the port into the first small port with ZE terminal operations and increase the ZE workforce in Northern California. 

- Port of San Diego - $58.6 million: This project will support the port’s longstanding commitment to the electrification of San Diego’s maritime cargo handling facilities and freight transportation by implementing the final electrification elements to transform San Diego’s maritime cargo terminals and the goods movement network on San Diego Bay. 

- Port of San Francisco - $55.39 million: This investment will transition ferry operations along the San Francisco waterfront to zero-emissions, removing 455,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide greenhouse gases and enhancing air quality at the Port of San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area airshed. 

- Port of Hueneme - $42.29 million: The Port of Hueneme Reducing Emissions, Supporting Health (PHRESH) project consists of two components: PHRESH START (Sustainable, Thoughtful And Resilient Transformation), which includes planning activities, and PHRESH AIR (Accelerating Implementation and Results), which involves the deployment of roughly 35 pieces of ZE terminal equipment and a drayage truck incentive program.

- Port of Redwood City - $1.97 million: This project, in partnership with a private entity, includes climate and air quality planning for hydrogen-based fueling and infrastructure.