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BRING BACK THE GULF A better plan than dumping abandoned oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico Current policy allows the oil industry to send its trash to the ocean bottom and call it a reef. Taxpayers are footing the bill for this giveaway that is compromising our Gulf of Mexicos public natural resources. RigstoReefs is a clever name for a waiver that sidesteps a requirement that each offshore oil lease includes full decommissioning of spent oil and gas structures to restore the seabed to its previous natural state. Bring Back the Gulf is a timely analysis of the scientific environmental legal social and political aspects of the U.