Tag Archives: opens with graphic reminders
Third phase of BP trial to establish environmental penalties opens with graphic reminders
Images of oil-coated birds and testimony about “widespread socio-cultural harm” opened the third phase of a trial to establish environmental penalties BP must pay for spilling millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The government wants the oil giant to pay another $13.7 billion for harming not just the birds and fish, but the business climate and social fabric of coastal communities. Read the rest here 20:27
