[APWG] NEWS: Groups sue EPA, want tougher ship discharge rules
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Jan 13 09:32:16 CST 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_re_us/invasive_species
Groups sue EPA, want tougher ship discharge rules
By John Flesher, Ap Environmental Writer - Mon Jan 12, 8:32 pm ET
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Environmentalists sued the federal government
Monday over new rules that critics say do too little to prevent cargo
ships from dumping invasive species into the nation's waterways.
The Environmental Protection Agency is requiring oceangoing vessels to
exchange their ballast water, or rinse their ballast tanks if empty,
before entering U.S. coastal waters and the Great Lakes. Environmentalists
say more extensive treatment of ballast tanks is necessary to keep
invasive species from foreign ports from damaging U.S. aquatic ecosystems.
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