Oil spill task force appointee wants Gulf Coast ‘made whole’
Charles Gruber, Gulf Coast Restoration Workgroup member and Baldwin County, Ala., commissioner, discusses the task force's mission and ongoing difficulties between federal and local officials in making the region "whole" again.
In February, President Obama appointed eight officials from county and parish governments affected by last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill to his Gulf Coast Restoration Workgroup, a task force of federal and state agencies, led by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, that will organize Gulf Coast restoration plans. Baldwin County, Ala., Commissioner Charles Gruber was one of them.
Gruber spoke with American City & County about the task force's mission, his region's economic and environmental condition as it prepares for the first post-spill tourist season, and ongoing difficulties between federal and local officials in making the region "whole" again.
