In fact, if my staff will help me, did we not put a billion dollars in this Jobs Bill to start or to support programs at the State and city ...
The incident also resulted in the largest oil spill in history, period; an incident that pummeled the Gulf Coast and left significant enviro...
To say that the work of the NRDA Trustees is important would be an enormous understatement, for Louisiana coastal restoration has been an on...
To say that the work of the NRDA Trustees is important would be a huge understatement.
It would be a far smarter economic decision to rectify the permitting process at Interior and get our fellow Americans back to work in the G...
Legislation to dedicate the funds and establish a council to administer them has seemed, to me at least, stalled in Congress.
The commission recommended that Congress dedicate for this purpose 80 percent of the Clean Water Act penalties, as Senator Vitter mentioned ...
Our citizens have already been victimized. Our economy has been victimized.
The impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill come, as I mentioned, on top of longer-term degradation of important habitats and resources o...
I think that equation needs to be flipped over. I think that the public should be in the driver's seat.
It may be prudent in the near future to look at moving S. 662, legislation written by me and cosponsored by my colleague Mary Landrieu, whic...
I think I represent all Gulf States in saying that we strongly support the recommendations of the National Oil Spill Commission.
Thank you both for your work.
I really don't think it will be helpful to mandate removing, in many cases, premier fish habitats.
I guess that is my question in all of this, and I don't mean to interrupt, but to get to the heart of it, you need some baseline.
the Interior Department's mismanagement of permitting is way too high.
What are the limits on this authority and what is the potential to expand and expedite that authority so we are not backloading everything f...
It remains appropriate that at least 80 percent of those fines levied on BP go toward restoring the Gulf.
