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September 27, 2004

In California, the sewage bill passes!

BY: Dawn

Late Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law AB 2672 (Simitian), making California the first state to ban discharges from sewage from toilets into state waters. This is in addition to the bills passed earlier in the week banning the discharge sewage from sinks, showers and laundries (also called graywater), giving California some of the strictest cruise pollution laws in the country.

“I’m tremendously pleased,” Assemblyman Joe Simitian (the bill’s author) said Friday afternoon. “This really puts California at the forefront of coastal protection. The cruise ship industry has been a growing economic benefit to the state, but it also poses growing problems in terms of coastal protection.”

(Quote from The Contra Costa Times.)

This is exciting news for our oceans and the state of California! Many thanks to all of you who sent e-mails to the state legislature over the last few months — this couldn’t have happened without you.