USDA Announces $50 Million for Gulf Of Mexico’s Restoration

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Following manual cleanup effort at Fourchon Beach, Louisiana, booms were set to attempt to protect the sandy beach area. May 2010. Caption and photo source: NOAA

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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 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday pledged $50 million to a program designed to restore seven river basins from Florida to Texas in an attempt to show a blueprint for rebuilding the Gulf Coast’s fragile ecosystem is more than just another federal report…

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