The United States has filed a huge lawsuit against the firm that is responsible for the largest environmental disaster on record to date in a New Orleans court, accusing BP of violating certain safety regulations. We knew, all along, that the old adage about what goes around inevitably will come back around and knew it would be only a matter of a few months before the Obama administration sued BP. The writing was on the wall as British petroleum pulled up and shipped out its very last Oil Spill Team from the Gulf Coast earlier this month.
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The once pristine wetlands of the Gulf Coast are now a recovering area that will never feel the same as before. "I've seen the devastation that this oil spill caused throughout the region, to individuals and to families, to communities and to businesses, to coastlines, to wetlands, as well as to wildlife," the attorney general, Eric Holder, told reporters.
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Aside from BP, the suit names Trans-ocean, which owned the rig, Anadarko Petroleum and MOEX offshore, which were minority partners in the well, and Lloyd's of London. Halliburton, which has come under intense scrutiny in investigations for the faulty design and construction of the cement seal at the bottom of the well, is not listed in the suit. But Holder said the complaint could be amended at a later date, and that criminal and civil investigations into the oil disaster would continue."We will not hesitate to take whatever steps are necessary to hold accountable those responsible for this spill," he said.
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