Gershon Cohen, project director of the Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters, discusses his decade-long work to clean up the cruise ship industry, which routinely dumps wastewater pollution into national and international waterways. In June 2011, Earthjustice, on behalf of conservation groups like Cohen’s, successfully defended an Alaskan ballot initiative that called for cruise ships to stop discharging waste into Alaska’s pristine waters.

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