Cruise industry sues to challenge Hawaii’s tourism tax designed to deal with climate change issues

No other State imposes comparable fees — and for good reason: It has been a fundamental principle since the Founding that the navigable waters of the United States are a common resource, not one to be commandeered by individual States for their own parochial revenue-raising interests.

— Attorneys representing the Cruise Lines International Association in a motion asking a judge to prevent the state and counties from collecting the tax on cruise ships while the lawsuit is pending.