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Company: BP
Current Parent Company:
BP
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:
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Penalty: $1,500,000,000
Year: 2015
Date: July 2, 2015
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: oil spill
Mega-Scandal:
Deepwater Horizon
Violation Description: BP agreed to pay an additional $1.5 billion to Mississippi to settle claims from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill but this was later rolled into the $20.8 billion federal-state omnibus settlement; see
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Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Mississippi Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Mississippi
HQ Country of Current Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: oil and gas
Specific Industry of Current Parent: oil & gas
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