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Debate Flares Over How to Spend BP Oil Spill Money

Nearly four years after the BP oil spill, a fight over how to spend the recovery money paid to Texas has erupted between environmentalists and the state's parks and wildlife department.

by Dave Fehling, Houston Public Media

Response boats work to clean up oil where the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig sank on April 22, 2010.
Credit: United States Coast Guard

Nearly four years after the BP oil spill, a fight over how to spend the recovery money paid to Texas has erupted between environmentalists and the state's parks and wildlife department. Read the full story at StateImpact Texas.

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Dave Fehling

HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA

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