Ten AGs Sent Letter Opposing Legislation Restricting States’ Authority to Protect Waterways Against Pollution from Commercial Vessels

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman led a coalition of 10 attorneys general in sending a letter urging Senate leaders to oppose the Commercial Vessel Incidental Discharge Act, a bill that “would dramatically weaken clean water protections by preventing New York and other states from limiting the discharge of biological pollution by commercial shipping vessels into their waters. The bill would also take the radical step of exempting these discharges from the federal Clean Water Act.”