U.S. Sues BP, Transocean for Damages ‘Without Limitation’
Attorney General Eric Holder says the government is going after nine companies involved with the Deepwater Horizon spill “for government removal costs, economic losses and environmental damages without limitation.” Guess that relationship between the Obama administration and BP was less cozy than it appeared. Halliburton, which was recently blamed by a presidential commission for some of the Macondo well’s shoddy construction , is off the hook—for now. Holder says new charges and new defendants may still be added to the suit.
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