Cruise industry fights new pollution limits
By Juliet Eilperin / The Washington Post

WHITTIER, Alaska — The gleaming white Sapphire Princess docked in this  deepwater port this month, unloading its passengers and taking on 2,600 more  guests headed first to Glacier Bay and eventually to Vancouver, British  Columbia. Every day of that trip, the cruise ship — whose website invites passengers to see Alaska’s “pristine landscapes” — will emit the same amount of  sulfur dioxide as 13.1 million cars, according to the Environmental Protection  Agency, and as much soot as 1.06 million cars.

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