The world's largest cruise line company, Carnival, has agreed to pay a $US20 million penalty because its ships continued to pollute the oceans despite a previous criminal conviction aimed at curbing similar conduct.
"The proof will be in the pudding, won't it?" the judge replied. "If you all did not have the environment, you would have nothing to sell." The company also admitted falsifying compliance documents and other administrative violations such as having clean-up teams visit its ships just before scheduled inspections.
Under the settlement, Carnival promised there will be additional audits to check for violations, a restructuring of the company's compliance and training programs, a better system for reporting environmental violations to state and federal agencies and improved waste management practices.
How much did they make by the practice? Is this punishment, or just a cost of doing business to their accountants? Auspol CorporateCapture
Is that all?
how much of that goes to the families of the dead marine life?