Environmental

Coast Guard Issues Ballast Water Discharge Standards: Misses Mark to Protect Nation from Invasive Species

Conservation groups look to states and Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen standards, shortening timeline, and address loopholes

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CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2012.  After more than a decade of debate, the Coast Guard is taking steps to address the scourge of invasive species that have been damaging America’s most vulnerable coastal and inland waters; from the Great Lakes to San Francisco and Chesapeake Bay. The most common source of introduction for these foreign creatures is water from the…

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