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  NCLA successfully petitions NOAA to delay warrantless 24/7 surveillance of charter boats in the Gulf

  By Staff reports | Thursday, Nov 11, 2021 @ 9:34am

  DC – A rule requiring for-hire charter boat captains off the Gulf of Mexico to install vessel monitoring systems (VMS), a kind of GPS tracking device, on their boats to supply 24/7 location information to the U.S. Government has been put on hold, a press release states.

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• Government delays document production in BP litigation; Napolitano lacks email is cited as one reason

  By Steve Korris | Tuesday, Sep 20, 2011 @ 3:00am

  Napolitano NEW ORLEANS � Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano lacks an electronic mail account, the Obama Administration offers as one of many excuses for delays in producing documents about the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

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• 14 seafood businesses sue BP in Jefferson County

  By Kelly Holleran | Thursday, Jul 1, 2010 @ 6:42am

  Floyd's Cajun Seafood in Beaumont A group of seafood restaurant owners claim they face economic difficulties after facing deprived access to their usual supplies of fresh seafood due to the sinking of a BP oil rig.

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• Rita victims sign up here: Insurance suits pour in as deadline nears

  By David Yates | Wednesday, Sep 19, 2007 @ 1:56pm

  NOAA image of Hurricane Rita It's not common knowledge, said a Jefferson County District clerk earlier this week, but Hurricane Rita struck twice -- once in September 2005 and then again in the clerk's office.

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• Perry urges Texans to prepare for hurricane season

  By The SE Texas Record | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 @ 10:00am

  AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry, along with the National Weather Service and the Governor's Division of Emergency Management, is urging all Texans to be prepared for the 2007 hurricane season, which officially started June 1.

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