Latest news: March 28, 2012
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BP fines should pay to fix spill damage Editorial, The Houston Chronicle. March 27, 2012. “After the Deepwater Horizon exploded almost two years ago, it seemed that oil would never stop gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. When the well was finally capped, we wanted desperately to believe that the disaster was over and done with. But it’s not. The Gulf still shows its effects…” (Read more) Letter: RESTORE Act benefits Chicago region, too By Mariyana Spyropoulos, commissioner of the …
Latest news: March 27, 2012
RESTORE Act Means A Cleaner Ecologically Safer Gulf Coast International Business Times (United Kingdom). March 27, 2012. “A bipartisan group within Congress has been working since last summer to build support for a proposal that would provide a steady stream of funding for ongoing restoration work. Known as the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourism Opportunities, and Revived Economy (RESTORE) Act, the measure would ensure that fines raised from the Deepwater Horizon spill are dedicated primarily to restoring the economic and …
Latest news: March 26, 2012
Adopt Louisiana’s coastal restoration blueprint: An editorial Editorial, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 26, 2012. “The state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority spent nearly three months listening to public input on its coastal master plan and making changes before voting unanimously this week to adopt it. Now the 50-year, $50 billion plan, which addresses both hurricane protection and coastal restoration, heads to the state Legislature, and lawmakers should adopt this important road map for our future…” (Read more) Louisiana …
Latest news: March 23, 2012
Highway bill with money for coastal restoration remains stalled By Bruce Alpert, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 22, 2012. “WASHINGTON — Here’s the latest in efforts by Louisiana lawmakers to pass the Restore Act, which would funnel 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines from the 2010 BP oil spill to the five Gulf States: On Wednesday, the House, on a mostly party line vote, rejected a Democratic move to pass a two-year $109 billion Senate transportation bill, which …
Latest news: March 22, 2012
Coastal authority approves 50-year, $50 billion master plan By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 21, 2012. “The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority today unanimously approved the 50-year, $50 billion five-year update of the state’s master plan for coastal restoration and hurricane storm surge protection, and sent it on to the Legislature. “Every community gets protection under this plan,” said authority chairman Garret Graves. “No one is left out and no one is left behind…” (Read more) …
Latest news: March 21, 2012
House decision on transportation bill means detour for Restore Act By Bruce Alpert, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 20, 2012. “WASHINGTON — A decision Tuesday by House Republican leaders not to bring up a Senate-passed transportation bill is a setback for Louisiana officials pushing to allocate 80 percent of fines from any 2010 BP oil spill to the five Gulf States…” (Read more) Public input seems to pay off Editorial, The Daily Comet (Lafourche Parish, La.). March 20, 2012. …
Latest news: March 20, 2012
Can Governments Respond in Time to Climate Change? By John McQuaid, Forbes Magazine. March 19, 2012. “Unfortunately for the people who live and work there, south Louisiana is a living laboratory for climate change. The huge marshlands have been sinking and eroding for more than a century, ever since the leveeing of the Mississippi River cut off the marshes’ supply of silt, and decades of oil and gas drilling carved them up…” (Read more) Landrieu says region must rethink its …
Latest news: March 19, 2012
The Gulf gets its share: Sen. Shelby should be thanked for work on RESTORE Act Editorial. The Anniston Star (Anniston, Ala.). March 17, 2012. “The extent of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill became evident two years ago. That’s when Alabama and other Gulf Coast states began pushing legislation that would designate 80 percent of the fines levied for potential violations of the Clean Water Act to go to the restoration of the five most-affected states…” (Read more) Restore Act takes …
Latest news: March 16, 2012
Keep the Gulf RESTORE Act on a roll in Congress: An editorial Editorial, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 15, 2012. “The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to direct 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines from the BP oil spill to Gulf Coast states with the passage of its transportation spending bill, and that’s a huge milestone for this critical measure. The Senate amended its $109 billion transportation bill last week to include the RESTORE Act…” (Read more) Good news …
Latest news: March 15, 2012
Senate passes $109 billion transportation bill, including BP fines provision By Bruce Alpert, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 14, 2012. “In a rare act of bipartisanship, the Senate on Wednesday voted 74-22 for a $109 billion transportation bill that directs 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines assessed in the 2010 BP oil spill to the five Gulf states harmed by the disaster. The fines are expected to be in the billions of dollars…” (Read more) Senate passes RESTORE …
Latest news: March 14, 2012
Mississippi River creates its own diversion at Bohemia By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 13, 2012. “The Mississippi River has broken through its eastern bank at the Bohemia Spillway, creating a natural diversion of freshwater and sediment that officials with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation would like to see continue…” (Read more) Fueling a New Future for the Gulf Coast By Kiley Kroh and Kate Gordon, Center for American Progress. March 13, 2012. “The Senate Is Poised …
Latest news: March 13, 2012
How Spill Settlement Money from BP May Save the Gulf Coast By Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine. March 13, 2012. “I was sitting shotgun in a speedboat chugging along veiny canals that cut through southern Louisiana’s coastline, during the Gulf oil spill in the summer of 2010. There was plenty to see that was out of the ordinary during that tragic summer, but I noticed something else a bit worrisome. According to the pilot’s GPS device, our boat — skimming at …
Latest news: March 12, 2012
Louisiana’s ambitious coastal vision By Neela Banerjee, The Los Angeles Times. March 11, 2012. “Reporting from Venice, La.— On an unseasonably warm winter morning, Earl Armstrong Jr. eases his airboat out of the slip, past a fishing crew hacking up a shark on the pier and a canal strung with hunting camps on stilts, into the broad waters of West Bay…” (Read more) Big win for the coast: An editorial Editorial. The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 11, 2012. “Legislation …
Latest news: March 9, 2012
Senate approves amendment giving Gulf states 80 percent of BP spill fines By Bruce Alpert, The Times-Picayune. March 8, 2012. “In a major boost for Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts, the Senate voted 76-22 Thursday to direct 80 percent of any Clean Water Act fines assessed in the 2010 BP oil spill to the five Gulf states. The fines are expected to be in the billions of dollars…” (Read more) RESTORE Act passed Senate due to compromise, turning Marco Rubio against …
Latest news: March 8, 2012
Keep the Restore the Gulf Act moving in Congress Editorial, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). March 8, 2012. “Gulf Coast states should be able to count on getting an 80 percent share of Clean Water fines that will be assessed for the BP oil spill, but legislation directing that money to Louisiana and its neighbors is having to overcome roadblocks…” (Read more) Settlement for the Gulf Editorial, The New York Times. March 7, 2012. “The proposed multibillion-dollar settlement between BP …