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Deepwater Horizon Owner to Pay $1.4 Billion for Gulf Spill

2013-01-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The driller whose floating Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew out in 2010, causing a massive oil spill, has agreed to settle civil and criminal claims with the federal government for $1.4 billion, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned and sank in April 2010. Eleven men were killed and millions of gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico and fouled the shores of coastal states. The well, known as Macondo, was owned by British oil giant BP, which settled...

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