Thursday, July 2, 2015

BP to pay billions to compensate for US oil spill

Oil company BP has agreed to pay nineteen billion dollars to four American states affected by the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

As John Clarke reports from Washington, the settlement follows years of litigation, and is only part of the costs BP is having to pay following the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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