PORT TOWNSEND — The electrocution of his 8-year-old son, Lucas, on July 4, 1999, while swimming near a dock on the Willamette River in Oregon transformed Kevin Ritz from a boating father into a ...

Cruise and cargo ships that dock at marine terminals in the San Diego Bay have been using shore power for over a decade, and the modernization of equipment to promote clean air is only continuing.

Cruise ships visit Halifax daily during much of the year, each spewing a town's worth of people — and a town's worth of pollution — into the city while docked in the port. "At some point, you know, ...