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Plan announced to restore Gulf of Mexico after BP oil spill

By Rick Spruill, Scripps Howard News Service Houston, Texas

Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig, April 2010

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on Monday announced a vast, collaborative plan developed by a federal task force to restore the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil spill disaster.
The plan will be kick started by a $50 million infusion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to restore the seven U.S. waterway deltas crucial to the Gulf’s health. Jackson outlined in broad strokes the four-part plan that will take years — and hundreds of millions of federal and private dollars — to implement. It was developed by the Obama administration’s Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force made up of federal officials and leaders from five Gulf Coast states.…

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