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Coast Guard receives award for oil spill prevention, preparedness, and response
May 16, 2012
SAN PEDRO, Calif. – Members of the Coast Guard will receive a 2012 Legacy Award for oil spill prevention, preparedness and response, May 16, for their efforts during the investigation of the sunken World War II tanker ship S.S. Montebello.
Members of the Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force will present the award during the Clean Pacific Conference in Long Beach, Calif.
2012 SCAA ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARD PROGRAM
May 16, 2012
2012 marks the fourth consecutive year of the SCAA Environmental Excellence Award Program. In 2011, SCAA invited Great Lakes Maritime Academy and Texas A&M at Galveston to participate in the program, bring the total number to seven participating academies. Award recipients are presented an engraved Weems and Plath Gimbal Box Clock and a certificate recognizing their achievement.
Environmental groups question Pete Hoekstra on drilling
May 16, 2012
LANSING, Mich. — Environmental groups say Republican U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra is changing his position on Great Lakes drilling.
Although the former Holland congressman voted in 2005 for a federal ban on Great Lakes drilling, he said during a recent campaign appearance that he'd support drilling under the lakes from shore.
Laws Not Adequately Protecting Great Lakes from Spills
May 16, 2012
Nearly two years after one of the worst oil spills in Midwest history, a legal study by the National Wildlife Federation, USA, reveals that laws governing oil pipelines do not adequately protect the Great Lakes and its communities from oil pollution and that states have not passed their own laws to fill in the gaps.
Pipeline spills in the Midwest are not an anomaly: they occur frequently and result in significant damage. The Great Lakes states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin contain 26,972 miles of hazardous liquid pipelines, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. There were 277 hazardous liquid pipeline accidents in the region between 2007 and 2011, which spilled more than 3.8 million gallons of these liquids into the environment, resulting in more than USD893 million dollars of property damage, according to the agency.
EPA makes $29 million available for clean diesel projects
May 15, 2012
As much as $29 million is available from federal and state grants to implement clean diesel projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from marine vessels, trucks, buses and trains, according to a recent announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The EPA says that $20 million is available in grants under the Diesel Emission Reduction Program (DERA) in FY 2012 grants and another approximately $9 million will be available through direct state allocations. EPA estimates that for every $1 spent on clean diesel funding up to $13 of public health benefit is realized.
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