The Port of Seattle received over 365 written comments at their commission meeting yesterday, urging them to continue banning cruise ships from dumping toxic scrubber waste in Washington state waters! Thanks to all who wrote in! You can still send in a comment: actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...

The national maritime safety regulator is investigating a luxury cruise line following allegations workers are being forced to live in overcrowded conditions below deck with no safe free drinking water, earning as little as $2.50 an hour. @cruiselaw.bsky.social #cruiseships #Carnival

“The future of shipping does not lie in prolonging the use of fossil fuels but rather in investing in clean technologies & fuels that align with environmental & climate objectives. Portland should join the growing movement of bans on discharges in port areas." @sianprior.bsky.social #cruiseships

Help protect the Salish Sea from toxic cruise ship scrubber pollution. Send a message to the Port of Seattle today!

Thanks to Clean Arctic Alliance for this great infographic, showing how ships with scrubbers pollute and acidify the oceans, harming the entire marine food web. @cleanarctic.bsky.social

Portland locals outraged after monstrous cruise ship arrives: 'Not worth [it]' "I would have preferred that our city spend public money courting actual businesses and industries that don't wreck the environment, and don't have the potential of disappearing in an instant…” #cruiseships #Maine

Help protect the Salish Sea from toxic cruise ship scrubber pollution. Send a message to the Port of Seattle today!

Follow a cruise ship from Seattle to Alaska & see all the harm it does! Thanks to Andrew Engelson for this stunning 2023 article. Update: the climate impact has risen from 1/3 of Seattle's to now more than half of Seattle's. @andyengelson.bsky.social hakaimagazine.com/features/cru...