"A host of green groups and conservation organizations are asking President Obama to back away from his plan to delay federal revenue sharing for coastline conservation work in his 2017 budget.

In the budget plan Obama released last month, the White House proposed delaying federal oil revenue payments to Gulf Coast states originally envisioned under a law Congress passed in 2006.

That legislation would give 37.5 percent of federal oil revenue from Gulf Coast drilling operations to Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas."

Devin Henry reports for The Hill March 8, 2016. [2]