By: John Kostyack

John Kostyack — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:31:08 +0000

It would be helpful to clarify that BP’s maximum liability far exceeds $21 billion. The $21 billion amount comes from the Clean Water Act’s civil penalty provisions. BP and its partners also are liable under the CWA’s criminal penalty provisions as well as under the civil and criminal penalty provisions of other environmental laws such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. And perhaps most important, they owe potentially tens of billions to restore the Gulf under the natural resource damage provisions of the Oil Pollution Act. See my blogpost on this topic from earlier this year: http://ow.ly/f6eBQ
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John Kostyack
National Wildlife Federation

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