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U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz called Carnival Corporation chairman Micky Arison to court halfway through the company's five-year probation. Carnival Corporation is the world’s largest cruise company, and is the parent company to Princess, Carnival, and Holland America, which all operate out of Seattle.
The judge was...
It's critical to understand what "bunker fuel" and "scrubbers" are.
This blog post describes what bunker fuel is, and why it's the prevalent fuel used by cruise ships.
Cruise ship industry cheat the internationally agreed upon emission standards by using "scrubber" technology. Scrubber technology essentially takes the...
Holland America dumped 17,000 gallons of grey water into Glacier Bay National Park. See the story on Alaska Public Radio's website. While Holland America claims that the illegal dumping was an accident, it went unchecked for 25 minutes and the cruise line avoided reporting it...
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Cruise ships operate with impunity. They dump toxic sludge and waste water into the ocean and simply pay the fine when caught—and then they dump again. And again.
As this video shows, the U.S. government is becoming increasingly impatient with cruise lines that are, in essence,...