Press Contact:

Amy Goldsmith, Chair, Coalition for Healthy Ports, Phone: 732-963-9714

Press Releases, Testimonies, Comments

• Newark Community Meeting Press Release - Residents and Experts Raise Three Concerns Over Bayonne Bridge Raising, March 19, 2013
• Economic Costs of the Bayonne Bridge and Port Expansion Presentation by Amy Goldsmith, March 19, 2013
• Summary of Comments Bayonne Bridge Raising Project - Draft Environmental Assessment By Coalition for Healthy Ports, March 18, 2013
• U.S. EPA Comments - Bayonne Bridge DEA, March 5, 2013
• NRDC Bayonne Bridge Comments, March 5, 2013
• Bayonne Bridge Comments - Newark Environmental Commission, March 4, 2013
• Bayonne Bridge Comments - NJ Environmental Federation,March 4, 2013
• Bayonne Bridge Comments - Ironbound Community Corp., March 4, 2013
• Coalition Press Release regarding Bayonne Bridge US Coast Guard hearing, Feb 13, 2013
• Amy Goldsmith testimony at the Bayonne Bridge US Coast Guard hearing, Feb 13 2013
• Fred Potter testimony at the Bayonne Bridge US Coast Guard hearing, Feb 13, 2013
• Coalition Press Advisory regarding the Bayonne Bridge US Coast Guard hearing, Feb 13, 2013
• Coalition for Healthy Ports Calls for Newark Hearing and Extended Response Time, Press Release, Jan 16, 2013
• Coalition Calls on Port Authority to End "Fast-Track" for Hazardous Bayonne Bridge Project to Ensure Jobs and Public Health, Press Release, August 2012
  
• CHPs Press Statements by Jacinto Diaz, Amy Goldsmith and Cynthia Mellon, August 2012

Fact Sheets, Reports, and Studies

• Newark and Ports Today, Newark Environmental Commission Presentation, By Ana BaptistaNewark City Council Hearing, March 19, 2013
• Port Expansion, What Does Newark Get?, Newark City Council Hearing, March 19, 2013
• Diesel Exhaust and Newark, Newark City Council Newark City Council Hearing, March 19, 2013
• Community Port Hearing Flyer, Newark City Council Hearing, March 19, 2013
• List of Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) Objections, Feb 18, 2013
  
• Ensuring a Healthy Port Fact Sheet, Feb 18, 2013
• Raising of the Bayonne Bridge public hearing, Feb 18, 2013
• New York Ports Exclusive: The Dirty Pictures the Port Authority Doesn't Want You to See, August 2012
• A Dirty Old Truck for Your Children's Future, Coalition for Healthy Ports, Mar 16, 2011
• The Big Rig: Poverty, Pollution and the Misclassification of Truck Drivers at America's Ports
  National Employment Law Project, Change to Win, Dr. David Bensman of Rutgers University, December 2010
• Port Trucking Down the Low Road: A Sad Story of Deregulation, Demos, July 2009
• Hazardous
  to Our Health: The Human Impact of Port Truck Pollution on Truck
  Drivers and Residents in New York and New Jersey, Coalition for Healthy
  Ports, Winter 2009
• Driving
  on Fumes: Port Truck Drivers Face Elevated Health Risks from Diesel
  Pollution, Natural Resources Defense Council, December 2007
• Diesel Health in America: The Lingering Threat, 2006:
  Diesel Health Impacts in NJ - County Chart
  Diesel Medical Costs - County Chart
• Diesel
  Hot Spots: A Snapshot of Newark, New Jersey - Finding a Path towards
  Kids Clean Air Zones, New Jersey Environmental Federation, June 2006

Videos

• Videos of testimony at the US Coast Guard Hearing on the Raising of the Bayonne Bridge, Newark, YouTube, 02/13/2013
• Video of the NYNJ Port Authority Board Meeting.
  Times CHPs members appear: Theo Moore 17:00 - 20:23. Cynthia Mellon
  27:33 - 30:13. Amy Goldsmith 35:38 - 38:41. Jacinto Diaz 38:58 - 42:18

Bayonne Bridge Application Documents

• Letter to U.S. Coard Guard requesting a hearing in Newark and extension of public comment period, Jan 16, 2013
• NRDC extension request letter, Jan 16, 2013
• Global Terminal and Container Services Permit Application, March 30, 2012
• Freedom of Information Act request letter, June 25, 2012
• Clean Ocean Action comments RE: Global Terminal and Container Services Application
• October 19, 2011
• PANYNJ Application for Bayonne Bridge, July 30, 2010
• PA Request for Fast Tracking Bayonne Bridge, July 30, 2010
• Coalition for Healthy Ports Comments RE: Bayonne Bridge Project, December 8, 2011
• NEPA Work Plan: Bayonne Bridge Navigation Clearance Project, September 2011
• Global ACE Permit 2011 September 19, 2011

News Articles and Reports

• Plan to Raise Bridge Draws Support, Skepticism Among Newarkers, Newark Patch, February 13, 2013
• EPA questions Bayonne Bridge environmental assessment by Coast Guard, Star Ledger, February 13, 2013
• Attempt to raise Bayonne Bridge roadway puts politicians, environmental groups at odds, Star Ledger, August 1, 2012
• Fast-tracking raising of Bayonne Bridge a bad idea, N.J. Sierra Club pres. says, Star Ledger, July 20, 2012
• Port Authority accelerates plan to raise Bayonne Bridge roadway, Star Ledger, July 18, 2012
• Port Authority officials ask Obama administration to raise roadbed of Bayonne Bridge, Star Ledger, Mar 26, 2012
• Port Authority Truck Ban Drives Truckers Out of Industry, Coalition for Healthy Ports, January 1, 2011

EJ Interagency Work Group Briefing on Environmental Justice and Goods Movement, June 28, 2012

National System Overview and Public Health Research

• Global Trade Impacts: Addressing the Health, Social, and Environmental Consequences of Moving International Freight Through Our Communities
• Global Trade Comes Home: Community Impacts of Goods Movement
• Driving Harm: Health and Community Impacts of Living near Truck Corridors
• Importing Harm: U.S. Ports' Impacts on Health and Communities
• Tracking Harm: Health and Environmental Impacts of Rail Yards
• Storing Harm: the Health and Community Impacts of Goods Movement Warehousing and Logistics

Los Angeles/Long Beach Materials

• I-710 Corridor Project Fact Sheet
• Why A Comprehensive Health Analysis in the I-710 EIR/EIS
• A Healthy and Sustainable Vision - Fact Sheet on SCIG

New York/New Jersey

• Hazardous To Our Health: The Human Impact Of Port Truck Pollution On Truck Drivers And Residents In New York And New Jersey
• Port Trucking Down the Low Road: A Sad Story of Deregulation
• Driving on Fumes: Port Truck Congestion Exposes the High Cost of Doing Business in Newark
  
• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's Clean Truck Boondoggle

Houston Materials

• Houston Freight Transportation Profile Source
• Freight Rail In The Houston Region: Influences, Volumes, And Trends Working Partner
• Port of Houston Authority - Map
• Canal Expansion Raises Expectations and Questions, New York Times, 2/19/12
• Down Places a Bet on Natural Gas, Houston Business Journal, 4/19/12

For more information on Coalition for Healthy Ports and this campaign, contact Amy Goldsmith at 732-973-9714 or agoldsmith@cleanwater.org.