President Obama tonight called for a long-term plan to restore the Gulf Coast after the devastating oil spill and promised there would be third-party oversight of BP’s payment of damage claims. Obama planned to say he wants to work with state officials, local communities, fisherman, conservationists and gulf businesses to develop a restoration plan for the coast. A senior administration official told reporters before the speech the plan would include a requirement that BP “will pay for the environmental degradation that it has caused.”
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