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Who Pays for the Clean Up?

by Josh Marshall
05.04.10 | 10:20 am

There’s been a lot of contradictory and erroneous information flying around about just who is responsible for paying for the cleanup of the BP Gulf oil spill. Is it all on BP? Are there caps to their liability? Here’s the bottom line on how it will work and who’s going to be paying.

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