Grist: BP killed 11 workers when the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up, and then it obstructed government investigators. That`s not editorializing - the company pled guilty to manslaughter and obstruction charges. Since you can`t imprison a corporation, it was punished in other ways. One of those punishments was a temporary ban on getting new federal contracts.
Never one to miss an opportunity to publicly whine about how unfair the world is for an explosion-prone petrochemical giant, BP sued the U.S. government...