Webinar: End Scrubber Use Now 

Experts and impacted community members detail devastating consequences of cruise ship and ocean going vessel scrubber use
Co-hosts and experts from Pacific Environment, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council and Alaska Community Action on Toxics held an hour-long webinar on scrubber pollution and what can be done to end it, followed by a Q&A session.
Panelists explained what exhaust gas scrubbers are and how they work, as well as why the use of scrubbers has proliferated over the years. Additionally they shared their perspectives of the impacts of cruise ships and resulting pollution, illustrating the value of and threats to traditional homelands, habitat and food systems.
A growing body of scientific work and studies show that Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems - otherwise known as scrubbers - are detrimental to the marine environment, wildlife and people’s health. On the surface, having scrubbers on ships might sound like a good thing - a way to take pollution from burning fossil fuels out of the air - but scrubbers transfer enormous amounts of extremely toxic pollution from the air and, instead, dump it into our oceans.