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The Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency agreed to enter a revised consent agreement with a ferry operator that would stop the nation’s last coal-fired ferryboat from dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan before the start of the 2015 sailing season. A federal judge has to approve Friday’s motion, the Ludington Daily News reported. Lake Michigan Carferry, operator of the S.S. Badger, wants to install an ash retention system aboard the ship that hauls passengers, vehicles and cargo between its home port of Ludington, Mich., and Manitowoc, Wis., from May to October. Currently, ash from its boilers is mixed with...

 Video: NYPD Divers Talk About RescueFirst, Brittany Catanzaro piloted a commuter ferry through a rescue mission that fished 24 people out of the frigid Hudson River after a plane landed in the water.   Then, she appeared on Larry King Live and did an interview with CNN's Campbell Brown. Throughout, she attended to a phone that wouldn't stop ringing.    Let's just say Thursday was a busy day for Catanzaro, a 20-year-old Fairview resident and NY Waterway ferry captain. Catanzaro, the authority's first female captain, was steering the second boat that reached a US Airways flight that had been forced down after...

<p>If anything.</p> <p>Mayor Bloomberg has an affirmative obligation - to the 70,000 commuters who use the ferries each day and to the survivors of the 10 victims who were laid to rest yesterday - to answer those questions. Today.</p> <p>As unambiguously as possible.</p>

KUMARAKOM, India, July 27 (AFP) - At least 65 people drowned when a boat packed beyond its 100-passenger capacity sank in a lake in the southern Indian state of Kerala, officials said Saturday. A senior police official, S. Gopinath, said the tragedy happened "due to overcrowding". "The boat was carrying passengers three times its actual capacity," he said, as officials speculated the ferry was carrying as many as 250 to 300 people. So far 65 bodies have been recovered, a rescue official said, with the toll expected to rise further. Some 64 survivors were admitted to various hospitals, a government...