Coast Guard Refusing FOIA Request on Cargo Ships

摘要

More than five months after the Cosco Busan accident-where the 810-foot-long container ship crashed into the base of a tower of a bridge in heavy fog-the U.S.Coast Guard is still refusing to comply with an October 11 Freedom of Information Act(FOIA)request by the marine conservation organization Seaflow asking for a list of vessels previously cited by the Coast Guard for regulatory violations and environmental crimes,they said in an April statement.