Judge clears BP oil settlement

Press Association
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A US judge has approved an agreement for oil giant BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record four billion dollars (£2.5 billion) in criminal penalties for the company's role in the 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.


More than 200 million gallons of oil spewed in the three months before BP's blown-out Macondo well could be capped. It was one of the worst environmental disasters in US history.
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