Coastal News Today | TX - RESTORE Act to Restore Coastal Bend Waters
The Coastal Bend will receive $22.5 million to restore water quality and freshwater inflows as part of the RESTORE Act, the law created to respond to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout and spill. The money was recently approved by the RESTORE Council as part of a $302 million grant package. “Water was the most injured natural resource in the Deepwater Horizon spill, and improving freshwater reaching the Gulf through its Texas watersheds will directly benefit every living creature in the Gulf, from plankton to people and everything in between,” said Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales in a...
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