The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new ballast water regulations that exempt existing Great Lakes ships from having to install onboard treatment. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the EPA ...
Everyone wants to crack down on invasive species, but LaTourette says the state of New York has gone too far by imposing new ballast water regulations on shippers that are so strict they can’t be met ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation requiring all saltwater ships entering U.S. ports to treat their ballast water by 2016. The measure, part of a broader bill covering ...
All ships entering the Great Lakes would be required to treat their ballast water to kill invasive species starting in 2009 under a bill that passed a U.S. House Subcommittee on Tuesday. The Coast ...
The Great Lakes Ballast Water Working Group (BWWG) released its 2015 Summary of Great Lakes Seaway Ballast Water Management activities Thursday. During 2015, 100 percent of vessels bound for the Great ...
The discharge of ballast water used to balance a ship is a real man-bites-dog story. This is an issue where environmental groups, public health organizations, businesses, trade associations, tribes, ...
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) -- Oceangoing freighters that claim to be empty of ballast water before entering the Great Lakes routinely carry organisms that endanger the water bodies, a new report shows. The ...
Through a lot of expensive and dangerous trial-and-error over multiple centuries — sometimes resulting in shipwrecks you still can explore today — humans have ...
Last week Canada issued new rules requiring all vessels stopping at Canadian ports to have ballast water treatment systems in place by 2030. While this may seem like a niche issue, reports have shown ...
The Great Lakes Ballast Water Working Group (BWWG) released its 2015 Summary of Great Lakes Seaway Ballast Water Management activities Thursday. During 2015, 100 percent of vessels bound for the Great ...
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