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Single hull oil tankers banned from U.S. waters – UPDATE

January 6, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

It’s only been a quarter of a century since the United States passed it’s Oil Pollution Act. A year after the 1989 Exxon Valdez environmental disaster off the coast of Alaska, American politicians wrote a law requiring all new tankers need to have double hulls to prevent similar catastrophes. But single hull tankers were still […]

Filed Under: Canada, Environment, International, News Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society, double-hull tankers, environmental disaster, Exxon Valdez, oil companies, Oil Pollution Act, protecting marine areas, single hull tankers, U.S. ports

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