Salon | Big Oil wins again: Why BP isn't sweating its “historic” Gulf spill settlement Salon More than five years after the explosion and spill that killed 11 people and spilled millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP, at long last, reached a settlement last week with the Gulf states and the U.S. Justice Department to pay for ... New Orleans accepts $45 million from BP in oil spill settlement BP could save $4 billion in tax breaks from oil spill settlement Did BP Get Off Cheaply? Antonia Juhasz on $18.7B Gulf Oil Spill Settlement |