President Joe Biden pledges $147M for ‘clean’ Port of Baltimore equipment, makes city symbol of infrastructure aid

President Joe Biden, continuing to make Baltimore a symbol of his administration’s push to upgrade aging infrastructure, will pledge $147 million in grants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the Port of Baltimore. According to the White House, Biden, in a visit Tuesday afternoon to the Dundalk Marine Terminal, will announce that the Maryland Port Administration will receive $145 million in Environmental Protection Agency grants to purchase zero-emission cargo handling and other equipment, and new heavy-duty transport trucks and locomotives It said the port will also receive $2 million to help it “chart a path to greater emissions reductions in the future.” (Photo: Whitehouse.gov)