ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Coast Guard and Crowley are responding to the grounding of the 160-foot Crowley barge 160-1 in the Kanektok River near the Quinhagak Village south of Bethel on the eastern shore of the Bering Sea.
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Coast Guard Strike Team Assisting EPA at New York Scrap Metal Facility
A member of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Strike Team is assisting the Environmental Protection Agency at an abandoned scrap metal facility Tuesday in Newburgh, N.Y.
Coast Guard Assists EPA at Cyanide Removal
Two members of the Coast Guard’s Pacific Strike Team are assisting the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday with cleanup operations at a former metal plating shop in Phoenix, Ariz.
Coast Guard Assists EPA at Ammunition Explosion Site
Two members of the Coast Guard’s National Strike Force are assisting the Environmental Protection Agency with clean-up operations at the site of an ammunition explosion that occurred May 31, 2009 in Reseda, Calif.
Ships sink with economy
by Petty Officer 3rd Class Connie Terrell
BOSTON -With phrases like “bail out” and “recession” being used in homes across the country, major companies going out of business, and foreclosures hitting close to home, Coast Guard inspectors worry the economy may be pushing some mariners to intentionally sink their vessels offshore or abandon them at the [...]
Korean shipping company pleads guilty to illegal dumping
SEATTLE – STX Pan Ocean Co., Ltd., a South Korean shipping company pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Wash., to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships by knowingly failing to maintain an accurate Garbage Record Book.
The inaccuracy was a failure to record a dumping incident during which approximately six 55-gallon [...]
Coast Guard responds to diesel spill in Norfolk, Va.
NORFOLK, Va. – The Coast Guard is responding to a diesel spill in the Elizabeth River near downtown Norfolk today from the moored research vessel, Lake Explorer II, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Marine Operation Base.
The captain of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 90-foot vessel notified the National Response Center and Coast [...]