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Cruise Ship Report Card Marks Massive Pollution, Constant Greenwashing from Cruise Industry
Cruise ship pollution remains largely unaddressed across the global industry, according to Friends of the Earth’s latest Cruise Ship Report Card.
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Analysis: Vacationers Generate 8 Times More Carbon on a Cruise Ship than on Land
Today Friends of the Earth released new data that shows cruise goers emit eight times the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per day than a land-based vacationer.
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Tenth Cruise Ship Report Card Reveals Industry Greenwashing
Friends of the Earth released its 2022 Cruise Ship Report Card today, the tenth such analysis assessing and ranking the environmental and human health impacts of major cruise lines.
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Princess Cruise Line Pleads Guilty to Second Probation Violation
This week Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. pleaded guilty to a charge that the company violated its probation a second time.
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Cruise industry blocks updates to Puget Sound dumping agreement
The Washington State Department of Ecology, Port of Seattle, and CLIA-NWC are still allowing scrubber wastewater dumping in Puget Sound.
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Major Cruise Lines Again Receive Fs On Human, Environmental Health
Friends of the Earth released its 2021 Cruise Ship Report Card today, an annual assessment ranking the environmental & human health impacts of cruise lines.
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Trump administration set to steamroll CDC on cruise ships, prioritizing foreign corporations over public health
If the Trump administration were truly concerned about public health and stopping the COVID-19 pandemic, it would be taking the recommendations of health authorities rather than championing the intere…
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50,000+ people tell CDC to extend no-sail order for cruise ships
More than 50,000 people have signed a petition led by environmental advocacy organizations Stand.earth and Friends of the Earth US calling for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to extend its…
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Major Cruise Lines receive Fs from WatchDog Group
Friends of the Earth released the 2020 edition of its Cruise Ship Report Card today, documenting the environmental footprint of the cruise industry and grading 18 cruise lines and their 193 ships.
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Port communities around the globe decry cruise industry pollution on World Oceans Day
Activists living in port communities around the world who have been fighting the cruise industry for their right to clean air and healthy oceans will hold a first-of-its kind virtual “Rally to Clean…