A groundbreaking study released by Bluewater Network in New York City on July 17, 2003 concludes that ferries operating in New York Harbor are 100 to 1,000 more polluting per passenger than cars, buses or trains. As a result, rapid ferry expansion in New York Harbor is worsening the region’s unhealthy air and threatening public health. Riverkeeper and Bluewater Network are calling on New York policymakers to require use of cleaner fuels and technologies before new ferries are put on the water.

The diesel exhaust emissions from three different New York-New Jersey ferry routes were compared to the air emissions produced by landside commute alternatives in the study conducted by top researchers in the fields of air pollution and transportation.

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