Florida – Gulf counties to discuss RESTORE Act Thursday – The News Herald
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Representatives of Florida’s 23 Gulf Coast counties will converge on Panama City Beach Thursday morning to discuss how RESTORE Act funds should be managed. The meeting,…
California – ‘Hands Across the Sand’ events scheduled for Saturday; groups take stand against offshore oil drilling – San Jose Mercury News
SANTA CRUZ – Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill wreaked havoc on the Gulf of Mexico and Florida’s multimillion dollar tourism industry, worldwide opponents of off-shore oil drilling…
Gulf of Mexico – Ken Feinberg: “I overpromised” to victims of Gulf oil spill – al.com
In his new book “Who Gets What,” renowned lawyer Kenneth Feinberg confesses a cardinal sin in his handling of the claims process for the 2010 Gulf oil spill. “I overpromised…
Mississippi – Use RESTORE money to dredge Pascagoula’s bayous (letter) – Mississippi Press
In 1974, before the effective date of the Wetlands Act, Bayou Yazoo in my neighborhood of Pascagoula was dredged. According to my late father, one man with a drag line…
Florida – Oil spill funds come ashore – Sarasota Herald-Tribune
It was not long ago that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig operated by BP exploded and sank off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 people and injuring 17 on April 20,…
Florida – State Sen. Don Gaetz says use BP oil spill cash or lose it – Pensacola Business Journal
Sen. Don Gaetz has a terse message for Panhandle officials about the $ 30 million Oil Spill Recovery Act money: Use it or lose it. Frustrated with the slow pace…
Florida – How the wind saved Florida from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – Mother Nature Network
Florida might have been saved by the wind. At the time of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the spring of 2010, computer models predicted that the 200 million gallons…
Florida – Winds Played Important Role in Keeping Oil Away from South Florida – Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily — The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in spring 2010 is the largest oil spill in the history of the United States, with more than 200 million gallons of crude…
Florida – BP oil-spill fines could boost Everglades restoration – Sun-Sentinel
WASHINGTON — Everglades restoration backers are aiming to get a big piece of the billions of dollars of fines that oil giant BP is expected to pay for polluting the…
Louisiana won’t get as much in Gulf oil spill fines as officials hoped – NOLA.com
A close reading of the conference committee report outlining the compromise Restore Act approved by Congress last week shows that Louisiana won’t get as many billions in Clean Water Act…
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