The U.S Supreme court settled a long dispute over California's undersea border. This dispute has been going on since the 1950's after Congress passed the Submerged Land Acts, this decree began in 1945 where president Truman said that submerged lands belonged to the federal government, and the court had agreed.Congress then passed a law where states could have ownership of lands up to 3 miles off the coast, but a fixed boundary was never set.This boundary setting can have an impact on the market of oil, among other things, and the future of alternative energy production.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/high-court-settles-dispute-californias-undersea-border-27621
its interesting that this dispute has been going on for so long and finally has been settled, but i do think that this will benefit California's enviromental policies because it will have more freedom and control over a wider area of space and hopefully will use it for innovation within the enviromental factors.
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