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With President Joe Biden’s 100th-day milestone on April 30, 2021, the U.S. Coast Guard is holding a steady course on its expectations, including those related to environmental stewardship, innovation and cybersecurity. (See Holland & Knight Transportation’s previous article, “Steady as She Goes: Three Expectations for the Coast Guard Under the Biden Administration” from Jan. 8, 2021) In fact, emerging commercial opportunities in areas involving renewable energy, innovative and novel technologies, and alternate marine fuels have already come to surface in the first few months of the Bi...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: With President Joe Biden's 100th-day milestone approaching on April 30, 2021, the U.S. Coast Guard is holding a steady course on its expectations, including those related to environmental stewardship, innovation and cybersecurity. (See Holland & Knight Transportation Blog, "Steady as She Goes: Three Expectations for the Coast Guard in 2021," Jan. 9, 2021.) In fact, emerging commercial opportunities in areas involving renewable energy, innovative and novel technologies, and alternate marine fuels have already come to surface in the f...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Under the Biden Administration, environmental sustainability as a means to combat climate change has been thrust into the spotlight as an emerging national imperative. This was made clear through President Joe Biden's rejoining the Paris Agreement and later in his Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, in which he stated that the U.S. should aim for net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050. In the maritime sector, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) ha...

Maersk offers advice at US hearing Dr. Lee Kindberg, Maersk North America’s Head of Environment & Sustainability addressed (virtually) on April 15th the U.S. Congressional Hearing House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on “Practical Steps Toward a Carbon-Free Maritime Industry: Updates on Fuels, Ports, and Technology.” Dr. Kindberg was invited by the committee to testify as an expert on the subject. “This is really an exciting time to be in shipping – a time of change that will transform the industry as much as containerization did in the 20th century,” she said...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Mitigating the negative effects of climate change has been a signature issue of the Biden Administration, and if Thursday morning’s hearing on the decarbonization of the maritime industry is any indication, it will also be a top priority of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Transportation. The hearing entitled “Practical Steps Toward a Carbon-Free Maritime Industry: Updates on Fuels, Ports, and Technology” was the first significant oversight hearing of the new session to ...