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BP Trial, in 2nd Phase, to Set Amount of Oil Spilled

2013-09-29 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: With billions of dollars in penalties at stake, the civil trial of the British oil company BP begins its second phase on Monday, which will set the amount of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 workers and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches. The government will argue that a total 4.2 million barrels of oil was discharged into the sea over 87 days, the equivalent of nearly one-quarter of all the oil that is consumed in the United...

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