Weld County Colorado is home to more than 20,000 oil and gas well, and related storage facilities. At least two installations are now known to have spilled nearly 19,000 gallons of crude onto the flood plain. Authorities are scrambling to assess just how much pollution may have spilled into the surrounding environment.
Oil giant British Petroleum has agreed to pay a record fine of $4.5 billion to settle criminal charges related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. It’s the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history. Bloomberg News reporter Brian Swint is following the story in London. “This should cover criminal charges against BP as a company,” Swint explains. Though BP already made a partial settlement […]