Environment

'There will be damage'

By Phil Mattera
June 24, 2010 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Twenty billion dollars. The amount BP agreed to put in escrow is more than 250 times the company's maximum obligation under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. It is a remarkable sum to get a corporation to disgorge before there has been any formal finding of guilt. But is it enough? While it is commendable that the people of the Gulf Coast will be guaranteed compensation, there is a risk that BP's voluntary