there is no law requiring them to contribute in any way to social services, mental health.
the law is deficient and can be and hopefully will be corrected so that the next time there is an environmental spill ... the polluter, the ...
I am dismayed the Federal Government itself did not have any monies readily available to respond through our own agencies.
Thank you.
And as you all know, we are drafting a piece of legislation to address some of these issues for future events.
We need to be aware of health care and monitoring of toxic exposure, especially for children and the oil spill cleanup workers, and provide ...
I am aware and have been for months, and it is part of why we wanted you all to come.
I would encourage you to live up to your public statements that you are going to make the region whole.
We should pay subsistence claims, fund food banks, and streamline the Food Stamp application to the two-page Disaster Food Stamp Form to all...
Economically, the Gulf Coast continues to be hit hard by all of this, and it is not the spill directly, it is the de facto moratorium which ...
Each State should have the ability to use these funds how they see fit to restore the economic and ecological damage caused by the spill.
In the 5 months that BP managed this claims process... they only distributed $359 million Gulf-wide.
It has been 9 months since the oil spill. Fifty-seven percent of claims in my State of Alabama remain unpaid.
Thank you, Senator Landrieu, for your leadership in bringing this human side of this tragedy to the forefront once again.
Congress needs to swiftly address the allocation of the Clean Water Act fines from the BP oil spill.
Wrap up, if you can.
The damages caused by the oil spill could last years.
We have had eight straight months of increasing unemployment. That is a direct result of the drilling moratorium.
