The proposal was made public on Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which said the move could save up to 8,300 lives annually in the two countries because of the large number of premature deaths caused by smog and other air contaminants from ships
Ships are big polluters because they burn a low quality, asphalt-like fuel laced with impurities such as sulphur left over from the refining process after cleaner items, such as gasoline, are produced. "It's basically garbage that's being sold as fuel," said Beatrice Olivastri, chief executive officer of Friends of the Earth Canada. The shippers are "using our atmosphere as a free garbage can," she said.
D: and after all that effort removing it from auto fuel.
A compromise that involves using dirty fuel on the high seas, but clean fuel near land could work.
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