Carnival threatens to end Baltimore calls over emission rules
Carnival Cruise Lines is threatening to stop calling in Baltimore, Maryland over new emissions rules, and the state’s governor, Martin O’Malley, is pushing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a waiver from the rules to keep the cruise ships coming to the city, the Baltimore Sun reports.
"If jobs are at stake, the governor is going to go to bat for those jobs," said O’Malley’s press secretary, Takirra Winfield.
Frank O’Donnell, president of environmental organisation Clean Air Watch called O’Malley’s push on the issue an attempt to “intimidate” the EPA.
"What I find absolutely deplorable is that a big polluter like Carnival in effect is trying to use the people of Maryland as pawns in this battle to try to relax life-saving clean-air requirements," O'Donnell said.
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