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- Meet Our New Ocean and Coastal Law Fellow: Samantha Hamilton
- September 26th, 2022 — Category: Miscellaneous
- Meet our new Ocean and Coastal Law Fellow: Samantha Hamilton! We asked Samantha several questions to get to know her better.
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- California Passes Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act
- August 16th, 2022 — by Kennady Hertz — Category: Miscellaneous
- California recently passed an extended producer responsibility law, SB 54, that shifts the “plastic pollution burden” from consumers and local governments to producers in the plastics industry.
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- Court Says Happy the Elephant is Not a Person
- August 4th, 2022 — by Kennady Hertz — Category: Miscellaneous
- Happy, a female Asian elephant born in 1971, recently became a major subject of debate for what species should have legal personhood.
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- Supreme Court Issues Ruling in West Virginia v. EPA Case
- August 2nd, 2022 — by Betsy Randolph — Category: Environmental Law
- On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. EPA ruling that the Clean Air Act (CAA) § 111(d) did not authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement a generation shifting approach that directed power plants to use clean energy sources over time.
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- Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Landmark McGirt Ruling
- July 29th, 2022 — by Zachary Evans — Category: Miscellaneous
- In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court released its 5-4 decision in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta. The Court found the federal government and states both have authority to prosecute non-Indians for crimes committed against Indians in Indian Country (or, all land located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation).
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- NPDES Permit Issued for Aquaculture Activities in the Gulf of Mexico
- June 29th, 2022 — by Betsy Randolph — Category: Aquaculture
- On June 8, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a five-year National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for Ocean Era’s offshore aquaculture project in the Gulf of Mexico.
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