BP will pay $25 million in civil fines to settle charges arising from two spills from its network of pipelines in Alaska in 2006 and from a willful failure to comply with court orders to properly maintain the pipelines to prevent corrosion, federal officials announced on Tuesday.
The fine is the largest per-barrel assessment ever levied against an oil company in a spill case and represents a ne
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