California

The American Waterways Operators’ president and CEO, Jennifer Carpenter, released an open letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom on January 30, urging him to withdraw requests to the California Air… Read More

Anticipating efforts by the incoming Trump administration to reverse some of the state’s climate agenda, California has withdrawn its requests to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce emission mandates… Read More

The American Waterways Operators (AWO) joined with three maritime unions in an urgent letter to Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, asking him to intervene to reject a… Read More

California Gov. Gavin Newsom defied a near-unanimous bipartisan majority in his state’ s legislature, as well as his state’s labor unions, to veto AB 1122, a prudent and reasonable fix… Read More

Defying the near-unanimous bipartisan support of California’s legislators as well as the state’s labor unions, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a last-minute veto of AB 1122, a marine safety bill… Read More

A group of California legislators warned Gov. Gavin Newsom in a March 26 letter that the Commercial Harbor Craft rule being promulgated by the California Air Resources Board will have… Read More

In the latest episode of what is shaping up as a major showdown between state and federal regulators, the U.S. Coast Guard has notified the state of California that it… Read More

American Cruise Lines announced January 26 that its American Jazz, the newest of the company’s 10 riverboats, is repositioning from the Mississippi River to the West Coast for river cruises… Read More

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration announced October 6 that it has awarded nearly $39 million in grants to 12 marine highway projects across the nation under the America’s… Read More