Read about AWO being featured in USCG Proceedings Magazine on SubM, new Jones Act Division of Enforcement funding and more in this edition of the AWO Letter.
Read about AWO’s amicus brief in a Jones Act case before the Supreme Court, the renewal process for AWO’s Alternative Security Program and more in this edition of the AWO Letter.
Read about extensions of MMCs and medical certificates, the Coast Guard's reapproval of AWO's Alternative Planning Criterion and more in this edition of the AWO Letter.
On December 4, President Trump signed the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act into law. This milestone achievement is the result of an intensive, years-long advocacy effort led by AWO and its members to reform a broken system of overlapping and conflicting federal and state regulations for ballast water and other vessel discharges. Now that VIDA has been enacted, how will the law change the status quo, and what should AWO members expect as implementation proceeds?
