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BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement

| Importance: 9/10

BP reached a landmark $4.5 billion criminal settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, pleading guilty to 14 criminal charges including 11 felony counts of misconduct or negligent homicide related to the deaths of the 11 workers in the Deepwater Horizon explosion. The settlement included $4 …

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BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement

| Importance: 9/10

BP reached a landmark $4.5 billion criminal settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, pleading guilty to 14 criminal charges including 11 felony counts of misconduct or negligent homicide related to the deaths of the 11 workers in the Deepwater Horizon explosion. The settlement included $4 …

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BP Agrees to $20 Billion Gulf Coast Claims Fund Amid Deepwater Horizon Fallout

| Importance: 8/10

BP agreed to establish a $20 billion independent claims fund to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, administered by Kenneth Feinberg. By July 2011, the Gulf Coast Claims Facility had paid $3.7 billion to 198,475 claimants. The fund, while unprecedented in its scale, faced …

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BP Agrees to $20 Billion Gulf Coast Claims Fund Amid Deepwater Horizon Fallout

| Importance: 8/10

Under intense pressure from the Obama administration and Congress, BP agreed to establish a $20 billion independent claims fund to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The fund, administered by Kenneth Feinberg, represented an unprecedented corporate commitment to environmental …

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Begins - Environmental Disaster and Corporate Negligence

| Importance: 9/10

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico marked the beginning of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. The explosion killed 11 workers and caused a massive oil spill that would leak approximately 134 million gallons of oil over 87 days. The disaster …

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