News Room: AB 471: Cruise Ships: air pollution
August 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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State Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), who authored the California law prohibiting coastal dumping by cruise ships and other oceangoing vessels, praised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its announcement today that it has proposed to ban all sewage discharges from large ships in state waters the length of the California coast.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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Cruise ships and large commercial ships will be banned from dumping any kind of sewage—even highly filtered wastewater—along California’s coast out to three miles from shore, under new rules from the Obama administration.
The rules, which are scheduled to be announced Wednesday at a news conference in San Francisco, give California among the strictest laws in the nation limiting pollution from large ships.
“This is going to cover the entire California coastline,” said state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto. “Oceangoing vessels should not consider our coastline a place for dumping sewage.”
In 2005, Simitian wrote a bill that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed banning sewage discharges in state waters from cruise ships and commercial ships larger than 300 gross tons.
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September 2004
Friday, September 24, 2004
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Palo Alto - Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bills 471 and 2672 this week, authored by Assemblyman Joe Simitian (D - Palo Alto). AB 471 prohibits cruise ships from incinerating garbage within three miles of the coastline. AB 2672 bans the release of sewage into state waters. The bills will go into effect on January 1, 2005.
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August 2003
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
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Sacramento – Assemblymembers Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), George Nakano (D-Torrance), and John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) are calling for passage of three bills regulating cruise ship pollution along the California Coast.
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Monday, August 18, 2003
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Sacramento – Assemblymembers Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), George Nakano (D-Torrance), and John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) will hold a press conference on Wednesday, August 20, at 10:00AM in the Governor’s Press Room (Room 1190, Capitol) calling for passage of three bills regulating cruise ship pollution along the California Coast.
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May 2003
Thursday, May 01, 2003
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Palo Alto – A pair of “Clean Coast” environmental bills to reduce air pollution and the amount of sewage dumped from cruise ships made headway this week after both bills passed in the Assembly Environmental Safety Committee. The legislation, introduced by Assemblymember Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), seeks to strictly regulate cruise ship waste along the California coast.
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