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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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BP's $4 Billion Bungle

NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge on Tuesday accepted BP’s guilty plea related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, sentencing it to pay $4 billion in criminal fines and penalties, the largest criminal resolution in U.S. history.

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