Alabama NewsCenter — NOAA, federal and state agencies continue Gulf restoration efforts 11 years after oil spill

By Chuck Chandler

Federal and state agencies continue to restore the Gulf of Mexico after the largest oil spill in U.S. history 11 years ago. More than $2.4 billion in settlement funds were committed to habitat and resource restoration through 2020 and settlement payments will continue through 2031.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Deepwater Horizon federal and state trustee agencies recently released their 2021 Programmatic Review. It is the first collective review of multiple years of work across the Natural Resource Damage Assessment restoration program, said NOAA Program Manager Rachel Sweeney.

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