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BP mounts last ditch effort limit Gulf of Mexio oil spill settlement
2014-05-21 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: BP last night mounted a last ditch attempt to limit the costs of its settlement for the victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill by lodging an appeal to the US supreme court to make a final ruling. Earlier this week the British oil group lost an argument at the fifth circuit appeal court of New Orleans that compensation money was being spent on businesses not directly affected by the environmental damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon. BP originally anticipated that it would have to pay...
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