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$1M Set Aside For Jersey Coast After Shipping Company Fined For Pollution $1M Set Aside For Jersey Coast After Shipping Company Fined For Pollution
$1M Set Aside For Jersey Coast After Shipping Company Fined For Pollution An Italian shipping company will pay a $4 million fine for dumping oily waste and other pollutants into the ocean and lying about it to the Coast Guard during a 2015 inspection in Bayonne, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said in a statement Wednesday.  The company, d'Amico Shipping Italia S.p.A., pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. In addition to the fine, the company will be subjected to oversight by a court-appointed monitor for four years.  The oil tanker Cielo di Milano made repeated stops at ports in New Jersey, Maryland and Florida. From 2014 t…

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