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  2. Regulation of ship pollution in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Title I of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) applies to cruise ships and other vessels and makes it illegal to transport garbage from the United States for the purpose of dumping it into ocean waters without a permit or to dump any material transported from a location outside the United States into U.S. territorial ...

  3. Hazardous Materials Transportation Act - Wikipedia

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    Each non-bulk package, container, or small tank must be labeled with a label code corresponding to the hazard class of the hazardous material being transported, and must follow design and placement requirements. [20] A properly labeled package carrying hazardous materials.

  4. Environmental impact of shipping - Wikipedia

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    A cargo ship discharging ballast water into the sea. Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment. [1] Cruise ships, large tankers, and bulk cargo carriers use a huge amount of ballast water, which is often taken on in the coastal waters in one region after ships discharge wastewater or unload cargo, and discharged at the next port of call, wherever ...

  5. What are leaking underground storage tanks and how are ... - AOL

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    The Canob Park disaster sparked a national outcry in the 1980s to clean up and regulate the thousands of underground tanks storing petroleum, heating oil and other hazardous chemicals across the ...

  6. Navy request for 5-year permit to operate underground Red ...

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    Jul. 15—State environmental regulators said this week that the Navy has not proved it can safely operate its underground Red Hill fuel tanks, which in recent years have been the subject of ...

  7. Ballast water discharge and the environment - Wikipedia

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    Cruise ships, large tankers, and bulk cargo carriers use a huge amount of ballast water, which is often taken on in the coastal waters in one region after ships discharge wastewater or unload cargo, and discharged at the next port of call, wherever more cargo is loaded.

  8. Health and environmental impact of transport - Wikipedia

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    The effect of the international ship emission on the distribution of chemical compounds such as NO x, CO, O 3, • OH, SO 2, HNO 3, and sulfate is studied using a global chemical transport model (CTM), the Oslo CTM2. In particular, the large-scale distribution and diurnal variation of the oxidants and sulfur compounds are studied interactively.

  9. Workers start emptying radioactive waste from massive, leak ...

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    Tank AX-101, which is not suspected of having leaked, was built in the mid-1960s using carbon steel and reinforced concrete. Waste was added to the four AX tanks from 1969 to 1980.