What a travesty of the first preportion!!! Where is Joe Barton when we need him?
Texas filed a lawsuit on Friday against BP America and other defendants seeking compensation for damage caused by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon offshore oil spill.
The suit filed by the Texas Attorney General’s Office seeks compensation for damages to natural resources, economic damages and civil penalties.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Beaumont.
Texas is specifically “seeking civil penalties for every day of oil discharge and for every barrel of oil that was discharged; lost sales tax, state hotel occupancy tax and mixed beverage tax revenue; revenue lost from state park entrance, facility, activity and concession fees; and damages to natural resources, including wildlife and coastal ecosystems and habitats caused by the released oil and chemical dispersants,” according to a statement.
Texas also wants to be paid for attorneys’ fees, court costs and investigative costs.
The suit was filed on behalf of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas General Land Office and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/texas-files-lawsuit-over-deepwater-horizon-spill.html/
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