Cruise Ships Must Stop Dumping Treated Sewage

Byline: Taylor Hill The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a rule Feb. 8 banning all cruise ships and most other large oceangoing vessels from discharging treated sewage within 3 miles of California’s 1,624-mile coastline and surrounding islands. The new rule, signed by EPA’s Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld, applies to vessels...