The discharge of ballast water used to balance a ship is a real man-bites-dog story. This is an issue where environmental groups, public health organizations, businesses, trade associations, tribes, ...

DULUTH — Federal regulators said new ships on the Great Lakes will need to install ballast water treatment systems, but existing ships that travel exclusively in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence ...

Captain Sean T. Brady, Chief of the Coast Guard’s Office of Operating and Environmental Standards (OES) Jennifer Carpenter, AWO’s EVP & Chief Operating Officer. Darren Nichols, Executive Director of ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked a federal appeals court to strike down federal rules that, she said, put the Great Lakes at risk of invasive species that damage the lakes’ ecosystem and fishing ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 30, 2008 (ENS) - Three environmental groups and six states have won a court ruling that requires oceangoing freighters to get a permit from the U.S. Environmental ...

Both Coast Guard and EPA advocate a technology-based method to bring ballast water discharges within applicable standards. The agencies differ, however, on whether the unavailability of necessary ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new ballast water regulations that exempt existing Great Lakes ships from having to install onboard treatment. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the EPA ...

A cargo vessel's center of gravity, and thus its stability, alters as it loads and unloads cargo. During unloading, the center moves upward as the vessel gradually rises in the water, and so the ...

Freshwater ecosystems are threatened by a host of environmental stressors from human activities. Among the most insidious and impactful of these is invasion by non-native species. Over the past two ...

If you and your crew are facing questions about ballast water management (BWM) and related regulatory deadlines, it would be worth your while to download a new (January 2021) “Ballast Water Management ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed rule today that would allow ships to continue releasing harmful concentrations of invasive species and disease organisms into U.S.

Michigan would drop its own stringent ballast water discharge rules and adopt federal regulations for oceangoing freighters that transport goods in the Great Lakes under legislation approved this week ...