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No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part I: Low-Hanging...
The shipping industry is an invisible and nearly unregulated environmental disaster, and if you haven’t heard much about its poor record, you’re not alone. Compared to power plants, cars and even...
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No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part II: A Lack of...
Photo by flckr / tillwe Although the original shipping emissions standards established in the MARPOL treaty went into effect in 2005, they were written in 1997, and getting the more stringent 2008...
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No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part III: Off The Hook
Photo by flickr / biofriendly When it comes to the pace of regulating deadly shipping emissions, not everyone is content to adopt a wait and see (or “follow the IMO”) attitude. As it has done before,...
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California Fights Shipping Pollution As International Shippers Push Back
Downtown Los Angeles Photo by flickr / kla4067 LONG BEACH, CA-Massive cargo ships have long motored into the nation’s busiest ports here and next door in Los Angeles, trailing plumes of sulfurous...
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The Ocean Regulators of Last Resort
The Norwegian Spirit Cruise Liner leaves port from New Orleans on the Mississippi. Photo: Ray Devlin Environmentalists achieved a major victory in March when the United Nations International Maritime...
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The Polluters’ Lawyers
Legislation to strengthen the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and other environmental concerns in the 1970s did not only create new government agencies, it also spawned entire fields of law. While...
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