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- Don’t Cage Our Oceans: The Army Corps’ Nationwide Permit for Commercial Finfish Aquaculture Found to be Unlawful
- October 24th, 2024 — by Ashlyn Tracy — Category: Aquaculture
- In 2022, Don’t Cage Our Oceans and other nonprofit organizations groups (collectively “DCOO”) sued the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) for its issuance of Nationwide Permit 56 (“NWP 56”), which authorized the installation of finfish aquaculture structures within oceans around the country.
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- Environmental Groups Petition EPA to End North Carolina’s NPDES Program
- October 9th, 2024 — by Jon Scoggins — Category: Water Quality
- On August 28, 2024, Cape Fear River Watch, along with other non-profit public interest organizations, submitted a petition to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) under 40 C.F.R. § 123.64(b) (2024).
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- West Hawaii’s Coastline Reopens to Aquarium Fish Collection After Court Ruling
- September 24th, 2024 — by Kaitlyn Shaw — Category: Invasive Species
- In a decisive ruling, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled 4-1 to allow commercial aquarium fish collection to resume along the West Hawaii shoreline. This area, known as the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area, had been at the center of a legal battle over the environmental effects of the aquarium fish trade.
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- Youth and the State of Hawaiʻi Agree: More Climate Action Needed
- August 19th, 2024 — by Mateos Lozano — Category: Environmental Justice
- 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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- NSGLC Hiring Ocean and Coastal Law Fellow
- August 8th, 2024 — Category: Staff
- 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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