Lawmakers want to ban maritime transport of crude on Great Lakes

摘要

Members of Congress are aiming to ban crude oil shipments on the Great Lakes and strengthen spill-response readiness in the region with two recent pieces of legislation. In September, Michigan Democratic Sen. Gary Peters and Sen. Debbie Stabenow introduced the Pipeline Improvement and Preventing Spills (PIPS) Act, a bill that would ban shipping crude oil by vessel on the Great Lakes and would require a comprehensive review of hazardous pipelines.