EPA Preparing To Seek Two New Studies To Bolster Stricter Ships Permit

摘要

EPA is preparing to ask its Science Advisory Board (SAB) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for two separate studies that could bolster its case for strengthening its contentious permit for governing ballast water and other discharges from commercial ships.rnAsking for the studies would be the first formal move by the agency towards reopening its Vessel General Permit, finalized in the last month of the Bush administration, after EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in February that the permit "doesn't begin to address some of the concerns that are still out there."