Environment
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ICS trashes market-based measures to tackle CO2 emissions
Market-based measures to tackle CO2 emissions are “highly controversial” and the majority of the industry is still not really convinced…
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Shipping must prepare for stricter black carbon emission regulations
A new global challenge and a compliance monitoring market are emerging, due to tightening environmental regulations. VTT Technical Research Centre…
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ICS takes aim at EU over emissions
The member national shipowners’ associations of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) have agreed to commence a co-ordinated campaign aimed…
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10% of ships tested in Shanghai fail new ECA ruling
One in ten of ships checked in Shanghai by authorities since new emission control area (ECA) rules came in this…
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K Line commits to slash vessel CO2 emissions
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line)has upped its commitments to slash its CO2 emissions going forward. The giant Japanese shipping line…
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Green groups plan lawsuit over expansion of Port Everglades’ entrance channel
Green groups on Tuesday said they are planning to sue the US Army Corps of Engineers in a bid to…
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US government says fracking off California poses no threat to environment
The United States’ Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have announced that…
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Port of Beaumont closed after oil spill
The Port of Beaumont in Texas and a section of the Neches River were closed after an oil spill from…
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Major environmental disaster declared in Penang following bunker spill
The local government in Penang has declared a major environmental disaster after a serious spill from the product tanker on…
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Port of LA creates emissions-free demonstration terminal
The Port of Los Angeles is teaming up with Pasha Stevedoring and Terminals (PST) to create a functioning green-principled port…
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Both Exxon and Chevron shareholders reject proposals to curb fossil fuel exploration
Shareholders of ExxonMobil and Chevron, two of the offshore oil industry’s biggest players, on Wednesday voted against resolutions that would…
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Grimaldi proposes $10 per ton tax on CO2 emissions
Emanuele Grimaldi, chairman of Confitarma and CEO of Naples-based Grimaldi Group, has proposed a tax on ship emissions after the…
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Shell pipeline spill skimming off Louisiana completed
The skimming part of the Shell oil-spill cleanup off the Louisiana coast has ended according to the Dutch-British supermajor and…
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Recovery of Shell flowline discharge continues while production resumes
Efforts continued on Monday, the fifth day after the incident, to clean up an oil spill from an underwater flow…
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Two men indicted for making fraudulent Deepwater Horizon damages claims
Two men have been indicted by a Florida grand jury for making fraudulent damages claims against BP in relation to…
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MSC fined $50,000 for oil spill in Ghana
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has been fined $50,000 by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authourity (GPHA) after heavy fuel oil leaked…
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90,000 gallons of oil leaked in Shell subsea spill
Nearly 90,000 gallons of oil leaked from a Shell flow line into the Gulf of Mexico 90 miles off the…
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EPA rule on methane regulation finalised
The US government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Thursday the revised version of its news rules to regulate methane…
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Senators demand pollution cuts around US port cities
A group of Democrat senators have sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency in the US, urging federal regulators…
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MST faces fine in the US
German owner MST has been charged in the US with covering up illegal dumping of oily wastewater. Its bulker, ,…
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