Groups Target Foreign Ships Entering Great Lakes
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DETROIT _ The legal battle over biologically tainted ballast water from ocean-going ships escalated Thursday as eight environmental groups acted against foreign shippers under the national Clean Water Act.
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By KEN THOMAS  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday it was withdrawing plans to periodically close 2,500 square miles of the Great Lakes for live machine-gun firing exercises.  The plan had been criticized by several U.S.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 18--ZHANGJIAGANG, China -- Night and day, the timber ships reach this Yangtze River port, one of the world's busiest clearinghouses for logs from every corner of the globe: Southeast Asia, the Amazon, Russia, the Congo.
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By Detroit Free Press  Jun. 23--With the threat of a lawsuit, eight wildlife and conservation groups have put welcome additional pressure on the shipping industry to stop delivering foreign species here.
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WASHINGTON -- In what U.S. officials called a serious provocation, Iranian boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatening to explode the American vessels.
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Three Somali police speedboats and a U.S. military vessel were headed Monday toward a U.N.-chartered cargo ship hijacked by pirates, a senior police official said. Piracy has been rampant off the Somali coast.
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The USS Nashville anchored off the coast of Lebanon Thursday morning prepared to receive some 1,200 Americans fleeing fighting to take them to Cyprus.
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Coast guard searching for DE in Lake Pontchartrain
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SELLS, Arizona  - An elite group of Native American trackers that use skills handed down from the ancestral hunt is being tapped to play a larger role in securing the United States' borders.
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By LEE BERGQUIST  When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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Five Iranian boats took aggressive actions around three U.S. naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, an official said.
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Coast Guard divers prowl the depths of the St. Johns River and inspect the hulls of cruise ships here. Federal helicopters fitted with crowd-surveillance cameras soar overhead. Hundreds of manholes have been locked down, and thousands of security forces are poised to hit the streets.
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The Great Lakes region, which has paid Africa&#39;s highest price in human lives and destruction from ethnic conflict, could soon be plunged again into wholesale war as a result of the recent massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsis in Burundi by Hutu militias.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Diplomats and biologists from more than a dozen countries will gather in Bar Harbor next week for the annual meeting of the international coalition that helps set global policies on conserving wild Atlantic salmon.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday it is dropping plans to conduct live-fire machine gun practice in 34 zones in the Great Lakes, yielding to widespread complaints about dangers to the environment and humans alike.
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US textile-trade groups said yesterday that they would pursue safeguards that target the threat of Chinese imports flooding the US market once quotas expire Jan. 1. The groups - the American
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Ships that have called at specified ports in Africa and the former Soviet Union are more likely than other vessels to be boarded and inspected when they enter U.S. ports, the Coast Guard said Friday.