Pressure grows for Baltic wide ban on scrubber water discharges
The pressure for a Baltic wide ban on the discharge of wash water from ships’ exhaust gas cleaning systems, or scrubbers, is growing. And advocates of the Baltic ban have hopes that
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USCG lab identifies responsible party in NY/NJ tar ball pollution
A spill on the evening of November 22 during an oil transfer at an oil facility in Bayonne, N.J., has been identified as the source of an incident that subsequently saw tar
UN buys VLCC to avert Red Sea pollution catastrophe
The FSO Safer, a decaying tanker holding four times as much oil as spilled by the Exxon Valdez is a ticking time bomb threatening a Red Sea catastrophe. Yesterday, the United Nations
Bulker chief engineer pleads guilty in pollution case
The chief engineer of a Marshall Islands bulk carrier pleaded guilty May 18 to two felony counts: deliberately discharging approximately 10,000 gallons of oil-contaminated bilge water overboard in U.S. waters off the
“Ocean outlaws” hit with $3 million in fines
U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews for the District of Delaware yesterday sentenced Athens-based Liquimar Tankers Management Services Inc. and Evridiki Navigation Inc. to a total $3 million in criminal fines,
U.S. agrees to $725,000 settlement in fishing vessel pollution case
San Diego-based JM Fisheries LLC, G.S. Fisheries Inc., the companies’ manager, and the chief engineer of the commercial fishing vessel Capt. Vincent Gann have agreed to pay a total of $725,000 in
Post-Ida response efforts continue
The Coast Guard is continuing to respond to impacts to waterways and assess environmental threats across Southeast Louisiana post-Hurricane Ida. These efforts include working In partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of
X-Press Pearl: Environmentalists file lawsuit
As the smoldering remains of the containership X-Press Pearl settle into the sea, Sri Lanka’s Centre for Environmental Justice, which is associated with Friends of the Earth Sri Lanka, today filed a
X-Press Pearl fire still not under control
Sri Lanka TV news channels today showed the nearly new containership X-Press Pearl as still continuing to burn, despite firefighting efforts that are now in their eighth day. Pollution from the 2021-built,
Iran seizes South Korean tanker
Tensions are ratcheting up in the Middle East as Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced that it had stopped a South Korean-flagged ship “for environmental pollution in the Persian Gulf,” adding that