population lives in the area targeted by this waiver. Whereas the existing waivers are restricted to border wall construction, HR 1505 expands the waiver to cover any activity of the Department of Homeland Security that is intended to stop undocumented immigrants or contraband from entering the country. The lawless zone would then extend 100 miles into the United States from the borders and coasts. This damage occurred because of the Real ID Act waivers, and Bishop's bill would extend those waivers to cover the entire U.S.-Mexico border, the entire U.S.-Canada border, and along all U.S. In California, 530,000 cubic yards of rock was blasted from mountainsides in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area, walls have caused serious flooding in Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and walls now fragment the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, which was established for the preservation of endangered ocelots. This allowed the department to construct barriers that now stretch 650 miles across the U.S.-Mexico border.
In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security used the Real ID Act to waive 36 laws. Such a ham-handed approach to a detailed and complex issue may seem unprecedented, but it isn't. 803), which would effectively give the Department of Homeland Security veto power over environmental protections on public lands within 150 miles of the border with Mexico. On the Senate side, Republican Arizona Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl have introduced the Border Security Enforcement Act of 2011 (S. borders, as well as all maritime borders. 1505), introduced by a visibly angry and red-faced Bishop during his committee hearing, would permanently exempt border enforcement activities from more than 30 federal protection laws within 100 miles of the U.S. The so-called National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (H.R. borderlands - including those that protect endangered species and safeguard clean air and water. Under the guise of improving border security, Bishop is promoting a bill that would jettison environmental protection laws along U.S. The idea was to enflame anti-immigrant sentiment here at home. Never mind that those images actually came from Mexico, not the United States. On April 15, Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT) held a five-and-a-half hour marathon hearing on the border, complete with headless body images. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.Republicans are using hysteria over immigration to try to undermine environmental protection.
Topics include history and technical background, the legal status of jettisoning, salvor's, shipowner's, and environmentalist's perspectives, and a regional response team decision-making exercise. BooknewsĬontains a report and recommendations by the Marine Board of the National Research Council's Committee on Marine Salvage, and papers from the February 1993 Symposium on the Purposeful Jettison of Petroleum Cargo. It includes the historical context of jettison, environmental requirements, new spill modeling technology, the current legal status of jettison under federal and state laws and international treaties, a panel discussion of an accident scenario that focused on jettison as an alternative for preventing a catastrophic spill, and a Regional Response Team decision-making exercise. This new book from the National Research Council presents the committee's report and recommendations along with proceedings of the symposium.
law and advances in oil spill contingency planning, environmental data acquisition, and spill trajectory forecasting. As part of its deliberations on this issue, the Committee on Marine Salvage Issues of the National Research Council convened a symposium to assess the jettison issue and its implications for shipping and marine environmental protection the need to clarify U.S. Now, potential legal repercussions have made salvors, administrators, and ship operators leary of considering limited discharge of petroleum or other cargo as a potential option for saving a ship and thereby avoiding a much larger spill. statutes - specifically, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 - introduced a strict new liability standard for damage from oil spills and established criminal sanctions for spillers. Synopsis of Purposeful Jettison of Petroleum Cargoĭischarging cargo to save a ship in distress is recognized in international protocols, but U.S.
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