Judge gives OK for US$4 billion BP oil spill criminal settlement

What the plea deal approved by U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance doesn't resolve, though, is the federal government's civil claims against BP. The company could pay billions more for environmental damage from its 2010 spill.

Vance noted that the company already has racked up more than US$24 billion in spill-related expenses and has estimated it will pay a total of US$42 billion to fully resolve its liability for the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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