Regulation of Ocean-Dumping—One Year Later
April 23, 1974, marked the first anniversary of EPA's jurisdiction over United States industrial and municipal ocean-dumping. In 1968—according to Council on Environmental Quality estimates—some 10 million tons of industrial waste and sewage sludge were disposed of at sea. In 1973—five years, a statute, and a treaty1 later—that figure has climbed to 12 million tons. How did we get where we are? Where do we go from here?