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: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
The Antarctic already has a ban in place on the use of bunker fuel by ships, the US and Canada are getting an Emission Control Area in August which could likely phase out bunker use in North American waters, and the EU is being pressured to elimin...
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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. 26, 2012 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
As tens of thousands of people gathered last week for the opening of the National Association of Music Merchants’ annual trade show, I traveled to Anaheim, California to join musicians and other environmental groups to call on the industry t...
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