Environmentalists, ship groups target ballast plan

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Thu, 12/03/2009 - 19:42

Environmentalists say a federal plan to prevent foreign species in ship ballast tanks from invading the nation's waterways is riddled with loopholes and would take effect too slowly.


 

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