protecting our oceans is a federal power.
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
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Not talking about oceans or Constitutionally allowed authority regarding admiralty, but oil company interference (unless the oil company has comitted “felony on the high seas”) and interference with state plans to prevent and or quickly remedy these kind of oil rig disasters.