The Port of Portland achieved Climate Registered status, a designation given to organization who join The Climate Registry and measure, publicly report and third-party verify their greenhouse gas inventory — also known as a carbon footprint.
“We’ve set ambitious goals for minimizing the port’s impact on air quality,” said David Breen, the environmental air quality program manager at the Port of Portland in a press release. “Our goals are to reduce the port’s direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and to reduce diesel particulate matter from port-controlled operations by 25 percent from 2000 baseline levels by 2015.”