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Louisiana ship-operating company fined $2.1 million for ocean dumping
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- USA
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- November 12 2010
A federal judge in New Orleans has reportedly sentenced the Louisiana-based ship-operating company Offshore Vessels LLC (OSV) to pay a criminal fine of $1.75 million and remit payment of $350,000 to the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation for violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships
Failure to report barge leak is continuing criminal violation of PWSA, says Sixth Circuit
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- USA
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- January 21 2011
In a split decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a failure to promptly report a barge leak was a "continuing" criminal violation of the Ports and Waterways Safety Act (PSWA
Federal court upholds FHWA decision on proposed Kansas Highway bypass
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- USA
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- November 19 2010
A federal court in Kansas has upheld a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) decision to locate a seven-mile, four-lane divided freeway along the southern edge of Lawrence, Kansas, to connect the existing K-10 HighwayUS-59 Highway interchange to K-10 Highway
Shipping company to pay $2.4 million criminal fine for falsifying records
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- USA
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- March 4 2011
A federal court in Maryland has reportedly sentenced a Liberian-registered shipping company to pay a $2.4 million criminal fine after it entered a guilty plea to a felony violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships
Industry groups challenge EPA’s Clean Air Act E-15 waiver
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- USA
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- March 4 2011
Several industry groups have challenged EPA's grant of a waiver allowing gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol (E15) to be used in model year 2001- 2006 cars and light trucks
D.C. Circuit rejects challenge to EPA nationwide permit for discharges from ships
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- August 5 2011
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge by commercial shipping industry trade associations to EPA’s nationwide Clean Water Act (CWA) permit governing discharges from ships
Shipping firms sentenced to pay $1 million criminal fine
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- August 5 2011
A federal court in Louisiana has sentenced four corporations which owned and operated a fleet of vessels that regularly visited New Orleans to pay a $1 million criminal fine; the court also prohibited them from doing business in the United States for five years for repeated ocean dumping violations
EPA to re-examine ballast water treatment standards
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- USA
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- March 18 2011
EPA has agreed to re-examine ballast water treatment standards in a settlement agreement with several environmental groups after two years of litigation
Ninth Circuit upholds California’s offshore pollution rules
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- USA
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- April 8 2011
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld California rules requiring oceangoing vessels traveling within 24 miles of the state's coastline to switch to low-sulfur fuels
Ninth Circuit majority rejects employee-driver provision of the Port of Los Angeles clean truck program
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- USA
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- October 7 2011
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, has ruled that a Port of Los Angeles clean trucks-program element, which requires that trucking companies only use drivers who are company employees, is preempted by the Federal Aviation Administrative Authorization Act (Act
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