Instead, they struggle politically, economically and legally, in what seems an endless turmoil, in a patchwork of overlapping federal and state jurisdictions.

Shallow port drafts, antiquated coastal regulation laws, the complex process of getting expansion approval plus overlapping federal and state government responsibilities add to the difficulties.

More than 50 people have been arrested or charged in overlapping federal insider trading probes that were first unveiled in October 2009.

There has been much criticism, some of it apparently justified, of the confusion resulting from overlapping Federal activities in the entire field of resource-conservation.