Muscatine

Just so we keep things on the level and don't forget:

See, here's the deal. The federal government is in charge of federal waters. It's one of the things they are actually supposed to protect, unlike health care, unions, and the banks.

Oh man, hiroad. Don't get her going on US territorial space again....she just don't get it.

Having said that, the Deepwater Horizon rig was about forty miles out from Louisiana, clearly in US waters.

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Under the law of the sea, an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea-zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. It stretches from the seaward edge of the state's territorial sea out to 200 nautical miles from its coast. In casual usage, the term may include the territorial sea and even the continental shelf beyond the 200 mile limit.