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Article: GREAT LAKES Cleaner shipping? Eliminating higher polluting fuels in lake shipping is a worthy goal. But taking into account the economic consequences is also a necessary step.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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This Editorial Board has long championed a cleaner environment,
particularly when it comes to pollution in or around the Great
Lakes. In that regard, we have had much common cause with Rep. David
Obey (D-Wis.), the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee.
The lakes have a good advocate in Obey. And we know that they
still do despite reports that Obey is trying to weaken proposed
regulation that would ban the use of high-sulfur fuel on ships
within 200 miles of U.S. coasts as well as along rivers and lakes.
Such a restriction would effectively ban the use of such fuel
altogether for lake shipping.
Banning this fuel in lake shipping strikes us as useful since, as
a Journal ...