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Great Lakes freighters are not pretty boats, stubby and slab-sided, and travel from mines to mills unnoticed except when they sink, as the Edmund Fitzgerald did. But people are noticing them now, as some very strange bedfellows try and gut EPA regulations on pollution. In Minnesota, Representative Jim Oberstar is fighting changes that would require ships on the Great Lakes to burn low sulphur fuel instead of the cheap and dirty bunker fuel they burn now. The cleaner fuel costs 70% to 250% …Read the full story on TreeHugger