BP agrees to $18.7bn Deepwater Horizon fine
Oil giant agrees to pay record environmental fine in attempt to settle on-going legal action over Gulf of Mexico disaster
The long-running legal saga sparked by the fatal Deepwater Horizon oil spill could be nearing an end, after BP today agreed to pay a record US environmental fine of $18.7bn. The oil giant reached a...
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