Carnival hires D.C. lobbying firm to seek 'relief' from Trump regime for past environmental crimes
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
For years, there’s been a metaphorical albatross hanging around the smokestacks of every ship in Carnival Corp.’s 93-ship fleet across its nine cruise brands. Yet as billions in revenue keep rolling in, redemption for the titanic company’s environmental sins have seemed less than urgent to chairman Micky Arison and his management crew.
Why? It’s a long and dirty story.
In 2017, Miami-based Carnival was fined a record $40 million after pleading guilty to federal felony charges that one of its Princess Cruise Lines vessels deliberately dumped thousands of gallons of oil-contaminated waste into the ocean near England and then falsified records to try and cover it up. Two years later, Carnival and Princess got hit with another $20 million criminal penalty after admitting to six violations of probation “attributable to senior Carnival management” that included discharging plastic waste in Bahamian waters and for interfering with court-ordered independent inspections. In 2022, Princess was fined an additional $1 million after pleading guilty to a second violation of probation for failing to establish an independent internal investigative office.
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