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		</div><p>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.</p>
<p>US District Judge Carl Barbier&#8217;s final order on the settlement was released today.</p>
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<p>The money is to be paid out over a 16-year period.</p>
<p>Judge Barbier had set the stage for the settlement with an earlier ruling that BP had been &#8220;grossly negligent&#8221; in the offshore rig explosion that killed 11 workers and caused a 134 million-gallon spill.</p>
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