ENV OCEAN & COASTAL LAW

Over the next decade, North Carolina and other states will confront ocean and coastal legal and policy challenges. Among these are issues related to the siting of oil, gas, and renewable energy facilities in coastal or ocean waters, the privatization of public waters, the impacts of subsidence and rising sea levels upon ocean beaches and estuarine shorelines, beach nourishment and shoreline protection, water availability, and the need for adaptation strategies to protect public infrastructure. We will examine these and other emerging issues and their related state and federal legal regimes and discuss the role the law plays in developing solutions.