More on BP’s guilty plea: it’s not just about the money

Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2012-11-20

Summary:

As already noted by Rick and Megan, last week BP pleaded guilty to 14 criminal counts arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Megan provided a good basic overview of the terms of the agreement. Here is the plea agreement itself. The amount of money BP has agreed to pay, [...]

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litigation pollution gulf of mexico deepwater horizon oil spill environmental crimes national academy of sciences

Authors:

Holly Doremus

Date tagged:

11/20/2012, 06:04

Date published:

11/20/2012, 03:39