Trial Starts for BP’s Deepwater Horizon Clean Water Act Violations

Trial Starts for BP’s Deepwater Horizon Clean Water Act Violations: pBy Shiva Polefka, Michael Conathan, and Kiley Kroh In November 2012, BP settled the Justice Department’s criminal case against it in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, agreeing to pay $4.5 billion in fines and admit it was guilty of 11 counts of manslaughter. But that 10-figure deal was just the tip [...]/p