Environmental Disaster News Update: Gulf Of Mexico

Update: Robert Reich

By time you finish this sentence, Halliburton will generate enough revenue to pay fine for destroying evidence in history's worst oil spill.

(FDL) DSWright reports ~ Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence After Gulf Spill

Another one of America’s corporate citizens has been caught breaking the law. Halliburton, of Iraq War profiteering fame, pleads guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. For its crime the company will pay a measly $200,000 as the Department of Justice agreed not to pursue further charges against the company.

 Meanwhile earlier in the week, UPDATE: Gas well on fire in Gulf of Mexico, 44 evacuated...

 The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement says reports the blowout occured at Well A-3 below a "Hercules 265 jack-up rig," about 55 miles off the Louisiana coast. via NPR

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