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Puerto Rican shipping company fined in pollution cover-up case

By On August 18, 2011

Puerto Rican-based Epps Shipping Company was sentenced today in federal court to pay a $700,000 fine for violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and making false statements [...]

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‘Healthy oceans are everyone’s business’

By On June 9, 2011

Photo By Rob Almeida, Copyright 2011 Remarks by NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco during Capitol Hill Oceans Week June 7, 2011 Good morning everyone! Let me begin with some heartfelt [...]

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Mapped

By On July 2, 2010

(Source: IMC Brokers) In the broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure [...]

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Guilty Plea in Empress of The North Pollution Case

By On April 24, 2009

Today, Juneau District Court Judge Keith Levy sentenced American West Steamboat Company, LLC for violating a Alaskan state criminal law that makes polluting state waters illegal.  The charge arose out [...]

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