A federal judge in New Orleans has granted final approval to an estimated $20 billion dollar (€17.5 billion) settlement, resolving years of litigation over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
US District Judge Carl Barbier’s final order on the settlement was released today.
The settlement, first announced in July, includes $5.5 billion dollars in civil Clean Water Act penalties and billions more to cover environmental damage and other claims by the five Gulf states and local governments.
The money is to be paid out over a 16-year period.
Judge Barbier had set the stage for the settlement with an earlier ruling that BP had been “grossly negligent” in the offshore rig explosion that killed 11 workers and caused a 134 million-gallon spill.
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