{"id":41387,"date":"2014-09-09T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41387"},"modified":"2014-09-09T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:37:33","slug":"federal-judge-finds-bp-grossly-negligent-in-deepwater-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/09\/09\/federal-judge-finds-bp-grossly-negligent-in-deepwater-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Finds BP &#8220;Grossly Negligent&#8221; In Deepwater Oil Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140909Uprising\/2014_09_09_bp.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Hugh Kaufman <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140909Uprising\/2014_09_09_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/bp_federal_ruling.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A federal judge has accused the giant oil company BP of recklessness in its role in the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil spill. The spill, which was the worst such disaster in the entire Gulf of Mexico&#8217;s history, happened 4 years ago, killing 11 workers and flooding the area with crude oil. BP has long contended that its contractors, Halliburton and Transocean share equal blame for the accident. But the judge in the case late last week issued a 153 page ruling in which he rejected that line of thinking, blaming BP for &#8220;conscious disregard of known risks.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Legally speaking, this means BP was found &#8220;grossly negligent,&#8221; meaning it bears the brunt of financial responsibility which may translate to $18 billion in additional fines. BP had only set aside $3.5 billion for potential fines. The company has already spent $28 billion in cleanup costs and paying claims. A stock market response to the ruling sent BP&#8217;s shares plunging in value. <\/p>\n<p>The company, shocked by the ruling, has vowed to challenge it to the Federal Appeals Court. Unusually, the UK government filed an Amicus Brief urging the US Supreme Court to review the ruling. The decision is being viewed as one of the most significant in the history of corporate malfeasance-related lawsuits. It was hailed by US Attorney General Eric Holder who said the Justice Department was &#8220;pleased.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Hugh Kaufman, A noted expert and whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has accused the giant oil company BP of recklessness in its role in the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil spill. The spill, which was the worst such disaster in the entire Gulf of Mexico&#8217;s history, happened 4 years ago, killing 11 workers and flooding the area with crude oil. BP has long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41399,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41387\/revisions\/41399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}