BP to pay record $21 billion in settlement for Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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By Colin PayneOct 7, 2015, 11:29 am38 pts
The reckoning has finally come for British Petroleum’s massive 2010 oil spill off the Gulf Coast, with a court settlement of nearly $21 billion related to the disaster. The Washington Examiner reports that the money will be split up and used to fund various projects to help address the environmental disaster,…

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