Current Trends in MARPOL Enforcement—Higher Fines, More Jail Time, the Banning of Ships, and Whistleblowers Galore
The United States has been aggressively enforcing violations of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships ("MARPOL") for many years. Since the early 1990s, these prosecutions under the Act to Prevent Pollution From Ships ("APPS") have commonly involved bypasses of the oily water separator or discharges of sludge overboard, but very few of the cases in recent years have involved illegal discharges in U.S. waters. (View PDF to read the rest of this article)
This article by Jeanne M. Grasso and Gregory F. Linsin, partners at Blank Rome, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter. To view the other articles in the September 2011 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.