An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plcs Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig.
BP has been complaining for a long time that many claims filed after its April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were phony. Now there's more evidence to back that up.
The bulk of the money from BPs record settlement will go to the five states along the Gulf of Mexico whose shores were blackened in the 2010 oil spill.