Green | February 19, 2009 | 6 comments

BP to pay almost $180 million in pollution case

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/19/bp-to-settle-pollution-te_n_168383.html

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BP has agreed to pay almost $180 million to settle a pollution case with the government.

BP Products North America agreed to spend $161 million on pollution controls, pay another $12 million in penalties, and spend another $6 million on a project to reduce air pollution near its Texas City, Texas refinery.

The settlement with the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency follows a deadly explosion and fire in March 2005 that killed 15 people and injured more than 170 others.

In the incident, the company has already pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay a separate fine of $50 million.

The settlement addresses what the government identified as the company's failure to comply with a 2001 consent decree requiring tight controls on benzene during the refining of petroleum.
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6 comments // BP to pay almost $180 million in pollution case

  • trut
  • RudyRudell
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • Here, here I applause but that picture if you haven't figured it out is of the Vietnamese general shooting a suspected Viet Cong infiltrater in the streets of Saigon. I due hope you are insinuating a like out come for Georgie.

    • 2 years ago
  • numinant
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      numinant  
    • kennymotown:

      i think it has more to do with the atrocities oil companies commit. you know, spurring resource wars, environmental destruction, displacing indigenous populations, sometimes massacring them, working in collusion with repressive governments and even terrorists. vietnam after all was, like most wars, fought in the interest of corporate profiteering.

    • 2 years ago
  • dariusvons
  • numinant
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      numinant  

    • it's worth it to them to continue violating environmental regulations. it's less harmful to their bottom line than to actually follow them. corporate fines need to be raised drastically, as does enforcement. that is, within the capitalist paradigm. better yet if we just nationalized them.

    • 2 years ago
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