Shipping Industry Crafting Strategy To Unify EPA, Coast Guard Standards

March 30, 2015
The shipping industry is working to craft a legislative strategy for Congress to unify EPA and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) standards for vessel discharges, exploring options to mitigate Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-CA) long-held opposition to the effort, which would preempt states' controls on ballast discharges. Some lawmakers and the shipping industry have long been concerned about the two federal agencies' overlapping ballast water requirements, included in EPA's 2013 vessel general permit (VGP) issued under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and...

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