National Audubon Society President David Yarnold recently penned an excellent editorial regarding the importance of the RESTORE Act on Gulf restoration in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill tragedy. What do you think about David's article? What about the RESTORE Act? Let us know in the comment section below or on Facebook.

From the Miami Herald:

Barrels of bile were spilled in weeks leading up to the Florida primary. But that’s just a clean-up on aisle three compared to the epic five million barrels of crude oil that paralyzed the Gulf Coast states a couple of years ago.

Well, BP’s bill is coming due and almost nine of 10 Floridians think the oil company’s fines should go to the states that suffered the greatest harm from the spill. Sen. Bill Nelson thinks that’s just common sense. Sen. Marco Rubio agrees.

But a huge chunk of BP’s penalties are dangerously close to disappearing into the black hole of the federal treasury instead of coming back to Florida.

Read more here.