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UK government lends hand to BP in U.S. Gulf oil spill ruling

2014-09-08 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The British government has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling against BP Plc (BP.L) over a 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill that produced one of the largest class actions in American history. A Louisiana court ruled last week that BP was "grossly negligent" and "reckless" in the spill, a move that could add nearly $18 billion in fines to more than $42 billion in charges. In a friend of court brief, the UK government said the ruling by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier...

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