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A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Wednesday that, on paper, are about a group of commercial fishermen who oppose a government fee that they consider unreasonable. But the lawyers who have helped to propel their case to the nation’s highest court have a far more powerful backer: the petrochemicals billionaire Charles Koch. […]
Read More‘Oh No, They’re Both Gone’: Beloved Maine Fishing Shacks Tumble Into Bay
The fishing shacks that once perched on the rocks at Willard Beach in South Portland were part of a childhood that Maureen Connolly described on Monday as “quintessential Maine.” The shacks, with lobster buoys hanging from their walls, had served as a backdrop for photographers and painters inspired by the rocky coastline, with its sailboats […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Hear Case That Could Limit Power of Federal Government
On a blustery fall morning in southern New Jersey, the weather was too rough for the fishing boats at the center of a momentous Supreme Court case to set out to sea. A herring fisherman named Bill Bright talked about the case, which will be argued on Wednesday and could both lift what he said […]
Read MoreLong Island’s Scallops Keep Dying. Not Everyone Has Given Up Hope.
Mike Tehan pilots a fishing boat called Nibbles out of Shelter Island. An hour before sunrise on the first day of scallop season in November, as he unwound the ropes, started the outboard motor and piloted the 25-foot fiberglass boat from an island cove into the open waters of Peconic Bay, Mr. Tehan knew just […]
Read MoreMaine Braces for More Storm Damage and Coastal Flooding
As tiny towns and fishing ports along the coast of Maine picked up the pieces from Wednesday’s devastating storm — and braced for more damage from another bearing down — not all the losses they counted were financial. Gazing out at a coastline pockmarked by missing piers, ramps and wharves, some of which had been […]
Read MoreWhere Will the Whales Be? Ask the Climate Model.
The opening of California’s commercial crab season, which normally starts in November, is delayed once again to protect humpback whales foraging for krill and anchovies along the coast. This region of the Pacific has been under the grip of a marine heat wave since May. “The Blob,” as this mass of warm water has become […]
Read MoreAfter Watching 10 Migrants Die at Sea, He Now Pleads: ‘Stay’
Crowded together with 90 other migrants on a rickety fishing vessel bound for Spain, Moustapha Diouf watched 10 of them die, one by one, from heat and exhaustion. Worried about health risks posed by the corpses, Mr. Diouf had to throw the bodies overboard. Five were friends. It was in that macabre moment 17 years […]
Read MoreFisherman Not Seen in Two Weeks Is Rescued at Sea
Canadian fishermen help hoist a man wearing a green hat and a blue plaid shirt onto a Canadian Coast Guard rescue boat that has pulled alongside them. As the man steadies himself, he turns around and says, “Thanks a lot guys,” then waves as the Coast Guard boat pulls away. “That’s one for the books,” […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Hear Another Broad Challenge to Agency Power
The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would hear a second challenge to a foundational precedent on the power of executive agencies. The new case is almost identical to one the court agreed to hear in May, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451. The court’s usual practice when asked to hear a follow-on […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Hear Another Broad Challenge to Agency Power
The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would hear a second challenge to a foundational precedent on the power of executive agencies. The new case is almost identical to one the court agreed to hear in May, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451. The court’s usual practice when asked to hear a follow-on […]
Read MoreThe Next Supreme Court Term: Guns, Free Speech and More
When the Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday, it will face a docket filled with unfinished business. The justices will revisit issues like gun rights, government power, race and free speech even as they are shadowed by intense scrutiny of their conduct off the bench. In the coming months, moreover, the court will […]
Read MoreThe Philippines’ Tension With China Crosses New Line in South China Sea
The video may seem too simple, too understated to mark a serious international incident in the South China Sea: a quick clip of a diver using a knife to cut a section of rope underwater. But that diver was with the Philippine Coast Guard, and the rope was part of a sea barrier placed by […]
Read MoreThe Philippines’ Tension With China Crosses New Line in South China Sea
The video may seem too simple, too understated to mark a serious international incident in the South China Sea: a quick clip of a diver using a knife to cut a section of rope underwater. But that diver was with the Philippine Coast Guard, and the rope was part of a sea barrier placed by […]
Read MoreBlasting Bullhorns and Water Cannons, Chinese Ships Wall Off the Sea
The Chinese military base on Mischief Reef, off the Philippine island of Palawan, loomed in front of our boat, obvious even in the predawn dark. Radar domes, used for military surveillance, floated like nimbus clouds. Lights pointed to a runway made for fighter jets, backed by warehouses perfect for surface-to-air missiles. More than 900 miles […]
Read MoreA Montauk Fisherman Faces Prison Over 200,000 Pounds of Fluke
It was just before dawn when Chris Winkler, a fisherman in Montauk, N.Y., set off on his trawler, the New Age. A longhaired surfer who looks far younger than his 63 years, Mr. Winkler was in flip-flops and shorts, trailed by Murphy, a good-natured Irish water spaniel who is usually his only company. But on […]
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