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Article: Shippers decry plan to curb air pollution; Oberstar is working hard for exemptions, saying hundreds of jobs are at risk.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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Byline: KEVIN DIAZ; STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON - The shipping news has been grim this year on the Great Lakes. Wracked by recession, iron ore cargoes are down by half on U.S. flagship vessels like the 1,000-foot super carrier Mesabi Miner, which spent most of the summer laid up in Sturgeon Bay.
Now, just as miners on Minnesota's Iron Range are getting called back to work, federal regulators and Great Lakes legislators in Congress are tangling over a sweeping nationwide plan to curb air pollution from ships, which would force them to upgrade engines and burn cleaner -- and more expensive -- distillate fuels.
Duluth Port Director Adolph Ojard says ...