Environment News Service: Regulations to reduce harmful air emissions from large ocean-going ships were unanimously adopted Friday by the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations specialized agency responsible for improving maritime safety and preventing pollution from ships. Effective as of July 1, 2010, the new plan will require ships to use low sulfur fuel in designated Emission Control Areas – first reducing permissible sulfur levels to 1.0 percent in 2010 and then dropping the permissible …