The Ballast's Out of Your Court

Federal court upholds Michigan’s clean-ballast-water law 1

A Michigan state law requiring oceangoing ships to keep their ballast water onboard or treat the water to kill any live organisms before discharging it into the Great Lakes has been upheld by a federal appeals court. So far, over 180 different invasive species have made a home in the lakes -- many of them originally carried there in ballast water.

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  1. Tasermons Partner Posted 6:46 am
    24 Nov 2008

    This is good......assumin' that they can actually check, verify, and enforce the release permits.

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