...Ketchikan District Court Judge Kevin Miller has denied motions to dismiss state charges that Greenpeace and ship agent Willem Beekman violated oil spill prevention laws last year. A trial is set for March 29. Greenpeace denied responsibility, saying...

...protest logging in the Tongass National Forest. Arne Sorensen was captain of the Arctic Sunrise at the time, and Willem Beekman was the ship's agent. Greenpeace, Sorensen and Beekman will go on trial on misdemeanor environmental charges on...

...financial responsibility certificate on July 12, but found him innocent of operating without the certificate on July 14. Willem Beekman, the ship's agent, also was charged with operating without either document on July 14. The jury acquitted him...

...contingency plan, and two counts of operating without proof of financial responsibility for oil spill damages. Ship agent Willem Beekman, a Greenpeace employee, is charged with one count each of the same misdemeanor offenses. Greenpeace has sought...