10/07/2011 01:08:00 AM EST
Federal Report Highlights Need To Clean Gulf Coast
HOUSTON - (AP) Five coastal states are determined to clean up the damaged Gulf of Mexico ecosystem after last year's oil spill highlighted how decades of contamination and deterioration had placed a backbone of the U.S. economy at risk of ruin, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration. . . . Full version available to lexis.com subscribers.