A federal judge on Thursday concluded that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ended up leaving some 3.19 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010—far less than previously estimated.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier’s finding, which followed a second phase of trial over the spill, means that BP Exploration & Production Inc. could be on the hook for less than $14 billion in civil fines under the U.S. Clean Water Act, rather than the U.S. Department of Justice’s originally estimated $18 billion.
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