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Maritime Legislative Forecast 2012

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Maritime Legislative Forecast 2012

The memory of the Deepwater Horizon incident that occurred on April 20, 2010 is fading away. Even though Congress has introduced many bills since then to address the issues raised by this incident, and held numerous related hearings, Congress has been unable to enact any pollution-related legislation. In fact, Congress failed to enact any substantial maritime legislation in 2011. (View PDF to read the rest of this article)

This article by Jonathan K. Waldron, partner at Blank Rome, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter.  To view the other articles in the March 2012 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.