Administration Supports Unlimited Liability For Oil Spills, but Only for Future Incidents

摘要

The Obama administration said May 25 that it supports revising the 20-year-old Oil Pollution Act to impose unlimited liability on companies responsible for an offshore oil spill, but only for future incidents, which does not go as far as some Democrats would like in regard to BP Pic and Transocean, two companies involved in the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill.rnA number of Democrats want BP and Transocean, which have been designated the responsible parties by the Coast Guard, to be held liable for all costs associated with the oil spill off the Louisiana coast that was triggered by an April 20 explosion on an oil rig.