In a Hail Mary effort to avoid paying staggering civil penalties, BP and Anadarko Petroleum appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court an earlier ruling by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans that BP and Anadarko were automatically liable as co-owners of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
On June 29, the Supreme Court rejected the two oil giants’ appeals over potential federal fines for their role in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The companies were seeking to avoid huge civil penalties under the Clean Water Act for the April 25, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the related oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana. The offshore explosion released millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf, the largest spill in U.S. history.
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