EPA seeks to reduce ship pollution on Great Lakes

(MN) Duluth News Tribune – The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed new regulations on smokestack pollution from ships, demanding lower-sulfur fuel and more efficient engines from the maritime industry.

The rules, which could go into effect in 2012, would reduce sulfur in marine fuel by 96 percent and cut particulate emissions from smokestacks by 85 percent and smog-causing nitrogen oxide by 80 percent. More

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POSTED: Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

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