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NRDA Settlement Reached for 2014 Galveston Bay Oil Spill

The Energy Law

On December 3, 2021, the Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register of a settlement between Federal and State Trustees and Kirby Inland Marine, LP (“Kirby”) to resolve natural resource damages from a 2014 oil release. 68686, and goes through January 3, 2022. Additionally, Kirby paid $4.9

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2023 Begins With Increased (or Unlimited) Liability for Vessel Owners

The Energy Law

A Regulatory Increase to the Limits of Liability for Oil Pollution and an Amendment Exempting Small Passenger Vessels from the Limitation of Liability Act Present New Challenges for Vessel Owners U.S. First, the Coast Guard announced [1] increases to the liability limits in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA”). [2]

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

Innovation and Competition Act passed the full Senate in early June. The House NSF bill creates a new Science and Engineering Solutions Directorate within NSF and authorizes funding for this directorate at $1 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2022. In total, the NSF for the Future Act increases authorized funding for NSF to $17.9

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