In 2017, Princess Cruises was hit with a $40 million dollar fine “for illegally dumping oily water overboard and falsifying official logs to hide the damage” (Herrera, 2017). It remains the largest fine ever given for vessel pollution in history. Just two years later, Carnival Cruises, the parent company of Princess, was fined $20 million
As of this writing, we are now 19 days into the government shutdown of 2018-2019. There have been untold issues that have come from the current political stand-off, not the least of which is the vast number of government workers not being paid to go to work. Non-essential personnel were told to go home, and
There is an interesting phenomenon going on in the world today where celebrities are encouraging people to vote in the American mid-term elections at a rate that is quite unprecedented. Never before have I seen such a push to vote. Why now, after all this time, is voting so important, when trends among millennials and
An issue that is sweeping the world new right now is the land expropriation initiative that is sweeping through South Africa. A news article from Fin24 – a popular finance website in South Africa – provides an exhaustive summary of how the land expropriation issue came to the forefront of the country. It explains, “In
Overwhelmingly in the past few years, we have seen more people come to the outdoors for the purpose of leisure since the Second World War. People have flooded the parks and resources that the United States government has provided for the purpose of enjoyment by the people. However, overwhelmingly, this has created problems that could
