TEN YEARS LATER.

Today BP penalty funds flowing to the region provide an enormous opportunity to not only repair environmental damages from that disaster, but also help restore a long-suffering Gulf Coast. This fact is often forgotten, but just weeks before the spill, President Obama announced a proposal to allow offshore drilling in sections of the Atlantic Seaboard, eastern Gulf, and north Alaskan coast. TEN YEARS AGO, WHILE REPORTING ON THE BP oil spill, I fell hard for the Gulf Coast. [Extracted from the article]