To combat what he calls political violence, Sanders stresses the expansion of the Voting Rights Act and restoring the Act's "preclearance" provision, which was gutted by the Supreme Court last year.
The law that directs BP's massive penalties to be used for coastal restoration is called the Restore Act for a reason.
Each individual particle is influenced by the motion of its nearest neighbor and both inertial and elastic restoring forces act upon each particle.
The RESTORE Act created the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council to review proposals and hand out 30% of funds stipulated in the federal court's decision.
Another was whether the bill, as written, might enable BP or another responsible party to wriggle out of paying for certain kinds of environmental restoration by claiming that projects were already funded under the RESTORE Act.
Louisiana officials plan to allocate the state's share of RESTORE Act dollars through a $50 billion master plan for coastal protection and restoration, approved by the state legislature in May.
A poem that seems to register this life-restoring act of resistance begins "The zeroes taught us phosphorus," meaning that it is in absolute cold and nothingness that true brilliance originates.
Gulf Coast lawmakers passed legislation called the Restore Act last summer under which 80 percent of fines paid by BP under the Clean Water Act would go to gulf communities.
The passage of the Restore Act required quite a bit of horse trading, particularly in a Congress not known for demonstrations of bipartisanship.
The Restore Act windfall represents a critical chance to grab up and safeguard some of the remaining marshes and coastal wetlands.
Efforts to resolve the case through settlement were also inadvertently complicated by Congress when it passed a law in 2011 known as the Restore Act.
