What will the Strategy do to address environmental injustice?

The Ports understand that significant environmental health disparities exist in our near-port communities, according to research and resources including the Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map and the Duwamish Valley Cumulative Health Impacts Analysis, and that diesel pollution from port-related activities contributes to those disparities. Reducing our contributions to this urgent and complex challenge - in particular by reducing and ultimately eliminating diesel pollution from port-related sources in communities that experience environmental health disparities - is a central goal of the 2020 NWPCAS and the associated implementation plans of each port. The Ports will seek to better understand these disparities and our contributions to them through analysis and partnership with near-port communities, and will prioritize actions and investments that reduce them.