As an independent coastal state, we will control access to our waters.

It all depends on the location: the further away from the shore, the weaker the control of the coastal state.

Opposition came from a bipartisan group led by coastal state senators that has helped to block federal attempts to promote offshore oil and gas exploration since 1982.

Normally, a sea baseline follows the low-water line of a coastal state.

If just a page or two of the various climate change reports turn out to be true, the next-but-one migration wave could include millions fleeing threatened coastal states.