Operators of a 63-year-old coal-fired passenger ferry that carries people and cars across Lake Michigan between Wisconsin and Michigan have made the necessary environmental improvements to keep the vintage vessel in service, U.S. regulators announced Thursday.
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A coal-fired passenger ferry is set to return to service on Lake Michigan after undergoing a makeover to meet terms of a deal with the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The last coal-fired steamship operating in U.S. waters is undergoing a makeover to meet the terms of a deal with the Environmental Protection Agency to eliminate pollution from the disposal of coal ash.
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When the SS Badger sets sail May 16, the venerable and historic car ferry will sport new combustion controls that will enable it to burn coal more efficiently. That should result in less coal being burned and less ash being produced by the Badger.
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A federal judge has signed off on a consent agreement with a car ferry operator that eventually will stop the country's last coal-powered ferryboat from dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan.
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The Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency agreed to enter a revised consent agreement with a ferry operator that would stop the nation's last coal-fired ferryboat from dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan prior to the start of the 2015 sailing season.
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Nearly 300 oversized truckloads of turbine sections destined for a Michigan wind farm development are being ferried to Ludington, Mich., via the SS Badger.
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The SS Badger, the nation's last operating coal-fired ferryboat, kicked off its sailing season Monday while awaiting word on a proposed deal with the government over releasing waste ash into Lake Michigan.
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Read More »There's still plenty of life left in the SS Badger, the historic ferry that steams across Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Ludington, Mich., from May to October each year.
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The nation's last operating coal-fired ferryboat would stop dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan within two years under a deal with federal regulators announced Friday.
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