Industry Hints At Legal Challenge To Retroactive Increase Of Spill Liability

摘要

The oil industry is criticizing efforts by congressional Democrats and the Obama administration to retroactively raise the industry's cleanup and other liability for oil spills in the wake of BP's massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, charging that the high constitutional bar on retroactive laws could present an argument to challenge the measures.rnOil industry officials are also arguing that efforts to raise the liability caps are unnecessary because BP has said it will pay "all legitimate claims."