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Feb. 25, 2013 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Cruise ships, Marcie keever
The Carnival Triumph’s “cruise from hell”…the tragic capsizing of the Costa Concordia in Italian waters…the Shell oil rig that ran aground on a small island south of Kodiak, Alaska… …there hasn’...
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Dec. 4, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Cruise ships, Marcie keever
It’s that time of year -- as temperatures drop, people start daydreaming about warm weather, and the lucky ones start scheduling their tropical getaways. If you, or anyone you know, are planning a cruise vacation, Friends of the Earth has a ...
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Aug. 30, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Marcie keever
This week the extent of Arctic sea ice is at an unprecedented historic low, the smallest amount of ice cover since satellite measurement began in 1979. According to scientists, dramatic summer sea ice losses in five of the past six years, continuo...
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Aug. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Cruise ships, Marcie keever
A cruise ship room tag from a Holland America vessel was found washed up with a concentrated amount of sewage and various plastic on Pond Beach in Nahant, Massachusetts last Saturday. The washed up waste was described as a “mass of rubber gl...
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Jul. 25, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Marcie keever
Nearly two years after the International Maritime Organization approved an Emission Control Area for ships in the waters around North America, the first phase is finally set to begin on August 1. This ECA designation brings the ocean waters of Nor...
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May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Marcie keever
Fred Felleman, Friends of the Earth’s Northwest consultant, stood on the dock in Everett, WA, this past February capturing evidence of the U.S. Navy’s active sonar use with a hydrophone. But the sonar gradually became so loud it could ...
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Mar. 8, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Marcie keever
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 / Tags: Marcie keever
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 / Tags: Marcie keever
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 / Tags: Marcie keever
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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