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Article: U.S. says EPA won't regulate ships' ballast water
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2003
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U.S. says EPA won't regulate ships' ballast water
Coalition says discharges endanger native species
By PAUL ROGERS Knight Ridder Newspapers
Thursday, September 4, 2003
San Jose, Calif. -- Skirting what some scientists say is the most
significant water quality threat to San Francisco Bay and other ports
-- invasive species -- the Bush administration on Tuesday announced
that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would not regulate
ballast water discharges from ships.
A coalition of 15 environmental and fishing groups had asked the
EPA to declare that ballast water was a pollutant that could be
regulated under the federal Clean Water Act.
That tactic represents the best hope, the groups ...