BP settlement money flows to governments in far-flung places
Friday, August 21, 2015
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Clusters of landlocked municipalities more than 100 miles from the Gulf Coast have secured millions of dollars in BP money through settlements designed to compensate local governments for lost tourism dollars and other economic damage from the company's 2010 oil spill, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.
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