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Water Issues 1-19 in Adobe Reader (pdf), most articles in text version.             Get Acrobat Reader Link 

Water Log 19.4

Water Log 19.3

Water Log 19.2

Water Log 19.1

Water Log 18.4

Water Log 18.3

Water Log 18.2

Water Log 18.1

Water Log 17.4

Water Log 17.3

Water Log 17.2

Water Log 17.1

Water Log 16.4

Water Log 16.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Alabama Loses Fight for Gas Reserve Compensation
  • Artificial Reefs: Creating Habitat in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Water Management District Immune from Suit
  • Lagniappe

Water Log 16.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Alabama Considers Constitutional "Right to Fish"
  • Fifth Circuit Rules on maritime Lien Act Application
  • Short Circuit Lesson
  • 1996 Mississippi Legislative Update
  • EPA Seeks to Amend Ocean Dumping Regulations
  • Ocean Dumping Overview
  • 1996 Alabama Legislative update
  • Lagniappe

Water Log 16.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Produced Water Deemed Pollutant, Sierra Club's Cedar Point Oil Co.
  • Gulf of Mexico Program
  • In Memoriam - Ron Brown
  • U.S. Driftnet Law Reaches into Mediterranean
  • State Department Adopts Environmental Diplomacy
  • Lagniappe

Water Log 15.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Environmental Policy, Practice, and Problems of the Department of the Navy
  • Environmental Regulation of Lead - A Shot in the Dark?
  • Can You Bank on Wetlands Mitigation? New Developments in Wetland Mitigation Banks
  • What Will Become of the Environment Under the New Republican Congress?

Water Log 15.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Is Mississippi Gambling With the Environment?
  • Case Brief: Secretary of the Interior v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon
  • Case Brief: Mississippi Casino Operators Association v. Mississippi Gaming Commission
  • How a Bill Becomes a Law in Mississippi
  • Mississippi Legislative Update 1995

Water Log 15.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Alabama DEM v. Kuglar
  • Louisiana v. Mississippi
  • Alabama legislation
  • Barrier Islands
  • Federal Legislation
  • Book Review: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
  • Publication Review: Aquatic Resources and Non-Point Source Pollution - Self Study Guide
  • Lagniappe

Water Log 15.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Gill net Restrictions in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Endangered Species Act Application: Earth island Institute v. Christopher
  • Fear of Fish Verdict Overturned: Leaf River Forest Products v. Ferguson
  • Lagniappe

Water Log 14.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Index 1981-1993

Water Log 14.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Secretary of State v. Weisenberg
  • Case Brief: James City County, VA. v. EPA
  • Legislative update: Mississippi
  • Lagniappe

Water Log 14.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Alabama Coastal Takings
  • A Commentary: Dockside Gaming - Coastal Mississippi's Newest Industry
  • the Impact of Legalized Dockside Gaming on Mississippi Coastal management Agencies
  • Case Brief: Dolan v. City of Tigard
  • Overview of the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources

Water Log 14.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Small Business Hazardous Substance Reporting - A Guide to Understanding the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986
  • Environmental Racism - Observations in Mississippi
  • Book Review: Islands at the Edge of time - A Journey to America's Barrier Islands

Water Log 13.4 (available only in pdf)

  • The Federal Government's "Latest" proposals Regarding U.S. Wetlands
  • Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality v. Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors
  • Gulf of Mexico Bills
  • Case Brief: United States v. Poszgai
  • Lagniappe

Water Log 13.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Criminal Enforcement of Mississippi Marine Resource Laws
  • Criminal Sanctions for Environmental Violations - It's Not Just the Cost of Doing Business
  • The Florida Approach to Environmental Law Enforcement
  • Kuppersmith v. South Alabama Seafood Association
  • United States v. Curtis (Clean Water Act)

Water Log 13.2 (available only in pdf)

  • American Sand and Gravel Company and Miss. Comm. on Environmental Quality v. Tatum
  • A New Scheme for Wetlands Management?
  • Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Gilich
  • Marine Aquaculture in Mississippi: State Cancels Lease
  • Mississippi Legislative Review 1993

Water Log 13.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Free Trade and Ocean Governance
  • Environmental Regulation Under President Clinton and the 103rd Congress
  • Book Review: It's All Politics; South Alabama's Seafood Industry

Water Log 12.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Casino Gambling and Tidelands Leasing in Mississippi
  • Administrative Agencies: An Overview for Citizens
  • Reheard v. Lee County
  • Lagniappe (a little something extra)

Water Log 12.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Legal Impediments to Limited Entry Schemes in Mississippi and Alabama
  • Wetlands Mitigation Banking: A Mississippi Perspective
  • Sierra Club v. Alabama Environmental Management Commission
  • Lagniappe

Water Log 12.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Counsel
  • The Earth Summit -- Its Impact on the Future of Oceans and Coastal Areas
  • Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Hunt
  • Mississippi Legislative Review 1992

Water Log 12.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Arkansas v. Oklahoma: the U.S. Supreme Court rules on an EPA permit for discharging pollutants into a body of water
  • United States v. Alaska; the U.S. Supreme Court rules the Corps of Engineers may consider a project's effect on federal-state seaward boundary lines
  • Marine Aquaculture in Mississippi: An Update
  • Overview of Selected State Agencies: The Alabama Department of Environmental Management

Water Log 11.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Marine Aquaculture in Mississippi
  • Mississippi Guidelines for Aquaculture in the Marine Environment
  • Environmental Regulation of the Aquaculture Industry
  • South Alabama Seafood Association v. Dep't of Conservation and Natural Resources of the State of Alabama.

Water Log 11.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Ocean Space Utilization - Trends and Needs
  • Comparison of New Ocean Technologies and Ocean Space Utilization in the United States and Japan

Water Log 11.2 (available only in pdf)

  • The Administration's New Wetlands Policy
  • Private Remedies for Water Pollution
  • Riparian Rights in Mississippi
  • Coker v. Skidmore: Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Not Needed for a Federal Project in Most Cases

Water Log 11.1 (available only in pdf)

  • An Update on the Issues of Seafood Safety and Inspection
  • The Impact of the Justice Department's New Gambling Ship Policy on Mississippi and Other Gulf States
  • Fighting the Dioxin Battle
  • Alabama Coastal Waters Initiative
  • Recent legislation; Mississippi

Water Log 10.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Shrimping and Bycatch: The Problems Is in the Trawl
  • Bycatch: The Commercial Shrimper's Perspective
  • Shrimp Trawl Bycatch: Recreational Fisherman's Point of View
  • Lucas v. S.C. Coastal Council
  • Beard v. S.C. Coastal Council

Water Log 10.3 (available only in pdf)

  • The Hawk Outside the Judicial Building: Recent Environmental Cases in Alabama
  • Coastal Zone Management Act; Highlights of the 1990 Amendments
  • Legislative Update: 101st Congress

Water Log 10.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Controversy Stirs Over Oyster Bed Leasing in Alabama
  • A national Coastal and Marine Policy
  • Fowl River protective Association, Inc. v. Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of the City of Mobile
  • National Solid Waste Management Association v. Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • Dycus v. Sillers: MS Supreme Court affirms standards for determining ownership rights to water in the state
  • Recent Legislation - Mississippi

Water Log 10.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Index 1981-1989

Water Log 9.4 (available only in pdf)

  • An Overview of Proposed Federal Seafood Inspection legislation
  • American Consumers Deserve Safe Seafood
  • A Grass Roots, Industry Perspective of the Seafood Inspection Issue
  • Mitigation Standards for Wetlands: EPA and the Corps Revise Their Agreement
  • Legislative Update: the Ocean and Coastal Environment
  • Bateman v. Gardner: Florida Fishing Statutes in Conflict with Federal Fishing Statutes

Water Log 9.3

  • Rigs-to-Reefs in Alabama and Mississippi
  • A Summary of Recently Adopted IMO Guidelines and Standards for Removing Abandoned Offshore Structures
  • TEDs Update Revisited: "TEDs Go!, TEDs No!"
  • The Development and Implementation of Louisiana's Artificial Reef Program
  • Development of an Artificial Reef Plan for Texas
  • Liability Considerations in a Rigs-to Reefs Project

Water Log 9.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Transcript of Speech to the Offshore Technology Conference
  • Oil Spill Prevention and Response: Lessons from the Exxon Valdez
  • Preemption and Other Obstacles to Oil Spill Liability Legislation
  • Common Law Oil Spill Liability - Who May Recover?
  • Preemption and Other Obstacles to Oil Spill Liability Legislation
  • Common Law Oil Spill Liability - Who May Recover?
  • Recent Natural Resource Legislation in Mississippi and Alabama

Water Log 9.1 (available only in pdf)

  • The Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Act: A Closer Look
  • Corps and EPA Agreement Concerning Federal Enforcement of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
  • The Exploration of Submerged Confederate Ironclads in the Mobile River
  • The Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988: EPA Issues Interim Final Rules
  • Atmospheric Ozone Depletion and Global Warming - What are they? - What is Being Done About Them?
  • Amphibious Oil Patch Workers as Jones Act Seamen: The Fifth Circuit Closes the Door a Bit More

Water Log 8.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Protecting America's Wetlands - The Final Report of the National Wetlands Policy Forum
  • Mississippi's Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Trust Tidelands - Summary of the Draft of the Final Report
  • Legal Issues Raised by the Presidential proclamation to Extend the Territorial Sea
  • United States v. Rioseco
  • "Blueprint for the Environment" Policy Recommendations Addressed to the Bush Administration
  • Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Act of 1988

Water Log 8.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Ocean Dumping: Establishing U.S. Policy
  • Navigating Today's ocean Pollution Problems
  • Sludge and the "Not in My Ocean" Syndrome
  • Medical Wastes Disposal in Alabama
  • Zero Tolerance and the U.S. fishing Fleet
  • Kokechik Fishermen's Association, et. al. v. Sec. of Commerce, et. al.

Water Log 8.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Mississippi's Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Trust Tidelands
  • Executive Order 12630 and the "Takings" Issue
  • Gambling Cruises in Mississippi Sound - More Litigation on the Horizon
  • Friends of the Earth v. U. S. Navy; Western Oil and Gas Association v. Sonoma County et al.
  • Recent legislation in Alabama and Mississippi
  • Summary of the Mississippi Aquaculture Act of 1988
  • New Test for Forum Non Conveniens in Jones Act and Maritime Cases

Water Log 8.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Looking Beyond State Shores: The "Caribbean Regional Seas program
  • Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region
  • S.C. Sea Grant consortium's International Activities
  • Self-Financed Resource management in the Caribbean: A Direct Approach to Maintaining Biological Diversity
  • Current Status of TED Litigation in Louisiana
  • Phillips Petroleum v. Mississippi; Save Our Dunes v. Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management

Water Log 7.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Turtles, Trawlers, and TEDs: What Happens When the Endangered Species Act Conflicts with Fishermen's Interests
  • Replies by Tee John Malefic of the Concerned Shrimpers of America and Michael Weber of the Center for Environmental Education

Water Log 7.3 (available only in pdf)

  • The Recent "Confidential" Classification of NOAA Seafloor Maps and its Effect on U.S. Marine Scientific Research Policy
  • Ocean Waste Disposal: Policy and Ethical Choices
  • Briefs: Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, Lasseigne and Sons v. Bacon

Water Log 7.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Executive Review of Fishery Regulations in the Gulf States in Light of State v. Organized Fishermen of Florida.
  • Redfish Management Update
  • Plastics in the Marine Environment:A Growing problem
  • Harmon Cove Condominium Assoc. v. Marsh; Tull v. United States; California Coastal Commission v. Granite Rock, Champion International v. EPA

Water Log 7.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Citizen Suits Under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act: Split Among the Circuits
  • New Mississippi Legislation on natural Resource Use
  • Exxon v. Fischer, International Paper Co. v. Ouellette
  • Index: 1981-1986

Water Log 6.4 (available only in pdf)

  • The Evolution of Cooperation in Natural Resources Law: the Drifter/Habitue Distinction
  • Management of Large Marine Ecosystems: Developing a New Rule of Customary International Law
  • The New Federalism Ships Out to Sea: Controlling Pollution from Vessels

Water Log 6.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Why is Seafood Quality Less Regulated Than Meat or Poultry?
  • Redfish Management in the Gulf: A Regulatory Challenge
  • Cinque Bambini Partnership v. Mississippi; Organized Fishermen of Florida v. Hodel; Japan Whaling Association v. American Cetacean Society

Water Log 6.2 (available only in pdf)

  • The Business of Marine Insurance
  • Improved Forms of Compensation for Fishing Vessel Injury
  • Congress Responds to the Crisis
  • No-Fault in New Zealand: It Works

Water Log 6.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Waterborne Transportation of Hazardous Materials/Wastes
  • Book Review: "Federal Fisheries management: A Guidebook to The Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act"
  • Briefs: Tallentine v. Offshore Logistics, Inc.; U.S. v. Riverside Bayview Homes

Water Log 5.4 (available only in pdf)

  • 1985 Mississippi Water Law Amendments
  • Marine Sanctuaries: A Case Study of the Flower Garden Banks
  • The Alabama Environment: A Report, 1982-1985
  • The Department of Archives and History: A State Resource
  • Shifting Currents of Ocean Policy
  • Exxon v. Fisher

Water Log 5.3 (available only in pdf)

  • The Endangered Species Act
  • The Marine Mammal Protection Act
  • Wildlife Management in Mississippi
  • Wildlife Protection in Alabama
  • CZMA "Consistency" Regulations Amended

Water Log 5.2

  • Coastal Development Examined in New Book Living With the Alabama Mississippi Shore
  • Bostic v. United States
  • Federal Preservation Law
  • Regulation of Fisheries Under the Convention on the Law of the Sea
  • Continental Shelf Resources and the Law of the Sea Treaty
  • Deep Seabed Mining
  • The Law of the Sea Treaty, Customary Law and the United States
  • The 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty, as Applicable to Marine Transportation and Commerce

Water Log 5.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Federal Preservation Law
  • Alabama Historic Preservation Law
  • Mississippi Historic Preservation Law
  • Book Review: A Handbook on Historic Preservation Law
  • Alabama and Mississippi Boundary Cases; Update
  • proposed Historic Shipwreck legislation
  • Federal preemption of State Historic Shipwreck Policies

Water Log 4.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Federal Regulation of Boating Activities
  • Liability for Personal Injury and property Damages Arising from Boating Accidents
  • Sea Grant legal program to Serve as a Clearinghouse
  • Gulf Regional Planning Commission
  • Alabama Boating Law
  • Wallop-Breaux to provide Boating and Sport Fish Funds
  • Mississippi Boating Law
  • Reef Fishing Resources protected by New Laws
  • Alabama and Mississippi Boundary Cases

Water Log 4.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Cleaning Up Maritime Hazardous Substance Discharges; Who is Responsible?
  • Ocean Dumping Act
  • University of South Alabama v. State of Alabama
  • Connor v. Aerobox, Inc.
  • NOAA Review of Federal Consistency process
  • Recent Legislation - Mississippi

Water Log 4.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Help for the Consumer in the Real Estate marketplace: The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act.
  • Mississippi Condominium Law
  • Alabama condominium Law
  • Time-Share Condominiums
  • The Uniform Condominium Act

Water Log 4.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Discarded By-Catch in U.S. Commercial marine Fisheries
  • OSC Lease Sales and the Coastal Zone Management Act: Congressional Reaction to California v. Watt
  • national Estuarine Sanctuary Program
  • Lacey Act
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Bostic et al. v. U.S.
  • Documentation of fishing Vessels

Water Log 3.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Federal Regulation of Seafood Quality
  • CZMA Consistency Determinations in OCS Lease Sales - Part II: California v. Watt
  • Alabama Department of Environmental Management
  • Seafood Quality Regulation in Mississippi
  • Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference
  • Alabama Floodplain management; update

Water Log 3.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Federal Flood control Legislation
  • Mississippi's Flood Control Legislation
  • Floodplain Management in Alabama
  • Channelization
  • Local Floodplain Management

Water Log 3.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing
  • Federal Off Shore Oil and Gas Leasing
  • Leasing Mississippi's Offshore Oil and Gas Tracts
  • Leasing Alabama's Offshore Oil and Gas Tracts
  • The Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation
  • Czma Consistency Determinations in OCS Lease Sales: A Case Law Analysis

Water Log 3.1

  • National Wildlife Fed'n v. Gorsuch
  • Sporhase v. Nebraska (water as an article of commerce-case brief)
  • Designating water discharge from dams as a non-point source pollution
  • Opinion: Re-Authorization of the Marine Sanctuaries Program
  • Safe Drinking Water Act

Water Log 2.4 (available only in pdf)

  • The Marine Sanctuaries program
  • The Huchem Incident
  • Coastal Barrier Resources Act
  • Department of Natural Resources

Water Log 2.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Admiralty Law: An Overview
  • Federal Policy Toward Barrier Islands - Update
  • In REM Arrest of a Vessel: Is It Constitutional?
  • The Wreck Removal Act of 1899
  • Foremost Insurance Co. v. Richardson

Water Log 2.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Cinque Bambini v. State of Mississippi and Mississippi Public Trust Doctrine
  • Coastal Wetlands protection Law Amended
  • Oil and Gas Development in the Mississippi Sound - Environmental Concerns
  • problems on the Escatawpa River
  • UNCLOS III - Treaty Status
  • Who owns the Mississippi Sound?

Water Log 2.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Marine Pollution on the Mississippi Coast
  • Federal Water Pollution Control Act
  • Mississippi air and Water Pollution Control Act
  • Oil Spill Liability Under the Clean Water Act
  • An Opinion on the Gulf Coast Pollution problem from Bureau of Pollution Control, Department of natural Resources
  • National Wildlife Federation v. Gorsuch
  • Deer island Update
  • Gulf Coast Wastewater Saga

Water Log 1.4 (available only in pdf)

  • Sea Grant Student Assistants
  • Littoral Rights
  • Mississippi's Policy Re: Oil and Gas Leasing in the Mississippi Sound
  • An Overview of Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Federal Waters
  • Treasure Salvors I, II, III, Exercises in the Law of Finders-Keepers

Water Log 1.3 (available only in pdf)

  • Ports: Challenge and Opportunity
  • Federal port Legislation
  • Port Development and the Federal Role
  • Port of Gulfport
  • Computer Plan Could Save Ports Millions
  • Many Economic Benefits Expected from Completion of Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
  • Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Association

Water Log 1.2 (available only in pdf)

  • Fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico
  • The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
  • Gulf Council's Shrimp Management Plan is Approved
  • American Fisheries Promotion Act
  • Gulf States marine Fisheries commission
  • Bureau of marine Resources: Friend or Foe of Deer Island
  • Coastal Zone Management Act Amendments
  • Federal Policy on Barrier Islands
  • Marine Fisheries Management in Mississippi

Water Log 1.1 (available only in pdf)

  • Mississippi Coastal Program Is Approved
  • Highlights of Mississippi's Coastal Program
  • Permit Application Process for Regulated Activities
  • Louisiana and Alabama Coastal programs
  • Commercial Shrimpers May Be Excluded
  • Toward One Stop Permitting . . . Slowly


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