Total Value of Global Settlement Will Top $20 Billion Largest with a Single Entity in Justice Department History Assures Continued Restoration of the Gulf Coast
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2015. The United States today joins the five Gulf states in announcing a settlement to resolve civil claims against BP arising from the April 20, 2010 Macondo well blowout and the massive oil spill that followed in the Gulf of Mexico.
This global settlement resolves the governments’…






