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The National Marine Fisheries Service denied an emergency petition to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from being struck by vessels off the coast of the southeast United States.

The US decided to put a limit on vessel calls at BP Cherry Point marine terminal, to comply with restrictions regarding the handling of crude oil at Puget Sound facilities, Endangered Species Act, and other applicable legal requirements.

Environmental groups sued the United States in order to overturn its approval of a deepwater oil-export facility off the Texas Gulf Coast, claiming that it would boost oil-production and greenhouse gas pollution.

Empire Bulkers Limited and Joanna Maritime Limited were sentenced for committing knowing and willful violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and the Ports and Waterways Safety Act related to their role as the operator and owner of the Motor Vessel (M/V) Joanna.  

The Biden-Harris Administration released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization. The Blueprint is a landmark strategy for cutting all greenhouse emissions from the transportation sector by 2050.

The IMO adopted a U.S. proposal to increase protections for endangered blue, fin and humpback whales off the California coast. The proposal takes effect this summer.

Congressman John Garamendi introduced the “Close Agency Loopholes to the Jones Act,” which would close nearly 50 years of loopholes.

The San Pedro Bay ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will phase out the option to collect a “Container Dwell Fee” on January 24, 2023.

A complaint has been filed with the Federal Maritime Commission by CCMA, against Mediterranean Shipping Company, with the former alleging that the latter violated 46 U.S.C. 41102(c), regarding its practices and the billing and assessment of charges on the shipments of the Complainant's container cargo, including demurrage, detention, and dwell charges.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced over $16 million in new projects to further hydropower and marine energy research and development.