KENNEBEC JOURNAL • June 21, 2020
In a rare, welcome display of bipartisanship, Congress is poised to approve the most important conservation law passed in the United States in 40 years. The legislation, known as the Great American Outdoors Act, would provide $9.5 billion over the next five years to repair America’s national parks. It also would provide $900 million a year in perpetuity from offshore oil drilling royalties to fund maintenance, repairs and expansion of national parks, state parks and city parks across the nation. ~ Editorial by The Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.)