Mar. 8, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
In an in depth piece in Crosscut, Friends of the Earth's Northwest consultant, Fred Felleman, wades into the need to fully investigate the safety and environmental record of BP after a fire broke out at BP's Washington state refinery at Cherry Poi...
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Feb. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
Today, the U.S. EPA signed a federal rule that will finalize EPA’s decision to approve a California state proposal to ban all sewage discharges from large cruise ships and most other large ocean-going ships to state marine waters along Calif...
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Feb. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
Cruise ship pollution poses a significant threat to marine resources. While treatment is required to discharge sewage and other wastewater, the U.S. EPA has found that older ship sewage treatment systems discharge highly concentrated wastewater in...
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Jan. 25, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
The tragic capsizing of the Costa Concordia in Italian waters on January 13, which left at least 16 dead and many more unaccounted for, cast a spotlight on the safety and environmental practices of cruise ships around the world. As search and resc...
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Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal
Read More »Tell Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling bee-killing pesticides.
