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Article: SEN. DURBIN CALLS ON EPA TO COMPLETE ASSESSMENT OF CRUISE SHIP POLLUTION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 15, 2006
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The office of Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., issued the following press release:
In a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) today wrote that it is "critically important to understand whether the appropriate laws and practices are in place to ensure that our coastal waters are protected from pollution."
Durbin called on the EPA to release its "thorough assessment of cruise ship waste streams, an analysis of the effectiveness of existing programs and identification of options for better management of cruise ship waste." Durbin said that a 3,000 passenger cruise ship generates over a million gallons of raw sewage, gray water and oily bilge water each ...