BP to pay $25M for '06 spills in Alaska

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- BP's subsidiary in Alaska will pay a $25 million civil penalty under a settlement announced Tuesday that comes five years after more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from company pipelines on the North Slope.

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