NEW ORLEANS - Restoring the oil-stained Gulf of Mexico coastline is critical to the Obama administration's fight against climate change, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Friday. Jewell was at a national park outside New Orleans to announce the latest round of projects to help the Gulf Coast recover from the 2010 BP oil spill. Money for 44 projects is coming from a $1 billion fund BP created after oil fouled 1,110 miles of beaches and marsh along Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. "The Gulf of Mexico watershed is a large and diverse landscape that is critical to our nation's culture, economy and environment," Jewell said in prepared remarks. "Today's announcement is an...
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