[CPEO-MEF] SHIPS: Suisun Bay (CA) ghost fleet ruling

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Federal Ghost Fleet Illegally Polluting San Francisco Bay

Environment News Service
January 25, 2010

SACRAMENTO, California - The federal agency in charge of more than 70 
decaying naval vessels stored in northern San Francisco Bay is illegally 
polluting and storing hazardous waste in the bay, a federal judge ruled 
Thursday.

Judge Garland Burrell sided with environmental groups who brought the 
lawsuit against the Department of Transportation's Maritime 
Administration, MARAD, to force the agency to stop the discharge of 
toxic heavy metals from the obsolete ships of the Suisun Bay Reserve 
Fleet, known informally as San Francisco Bay's ghost fleet. Some of the 
old ships date back to World War II.

The ruling is a victory for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Arc 
Ecology and San Francisco Baykeeper, the original plaintiffs in the 
case, and for the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control 
Board, which joined the suit after it had been filed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2010/2010-01-25-092.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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