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In the Baltic Sea, Ship Scrubbers Have Caused Millions of Dollars Worth of Environmental Damage

The adoption of ship scrubbers—technology meant to clean up dirty fuel—has caused a surge in heavy metal pollution.
In early 2020, people in port cities around the world started breathing a little easier thanks to new regulations from the International Maritime Organization (IMO)—the overseer of international shipping—that restricted how much sulfur oxide pollution ships could have in their exhaust.
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