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On June 20, 2024, youth plaintiffs and the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) reached a historic settlement agreement in Navahine F. v. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation that requires HDOT to enact various initiatives to significantly decarbonize the transportation sector. A key part of the agreement is that HDOT is obligated to achieve zero emissions in ground, sea, and inter-island air transportation by 2045. The agreement comes as the Hawaiian government recognizes the scientific consensus surrounding the threat of anthropogenic climate change.

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The National Sea Grant Law Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law is seeking applications for its Ocean and Coastal Law Fellowship Program. The objective of the fellowship is to further the Fellow’s education and career development in ocean and coastal law through participation in the Law Center’s programs and activities.

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Conflict on the Rio Grande: the Battle Over Water Distribution in the American Southwest
August 6th, 2024 — by Collin Dowson — Category: Groundwater

For more than a century the Rio Grande—a river which snakes through Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, before continuing south into Mexico—has been the focus of a number of important negotiations. Arguably the most important of these agreements has been the Rio Grande Compact, signed in 1938 by all the states who touch the river.

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