Will Great Lakes Ferry Clean Up Its Act?

Being an old merchant marine, I wanted to share this with you.

Built in the 1950s for the brawny task of ferrying railroad cars, the last coal-burning steamship on the Great Lakes is billed today as a nostalgic vacation shortcut between Wisconsin and Michigan.

But every day it sails between this old shipbuilding port and Ludington, Mich., the SS Badger dumps nearly four tons of coal ash into Lake Michigan -- waste concentrated with arsenic, lead, mercury and other toxic metals. During its spring-to-fall season, federal records show, the amount far exceeds the coal, iron and limestone waste jettisoned by all 125 other big ships on the Great Lakes combined.

via Will Great Lakes ferry clean up its act? | StarTribune.com.