Alaska Lawmakers Attempt to Reverse Initiative on Cruise Ship Discharges

February 16, 2009 - 9:53am

In 2006, Alaska voters approved a ballot initiative that imposed tough environmental rules on the water discharges of cruise ships. Now that state's lawmakers, claiming that enforcement of the rules threatens to hurt tourism in the Last Frontier, are pushing legislation to relax those standards.

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