Civil Litigation
Mar. 17, 2020
Plains pipeline company to pay $60M in no-fault settlement
Without admitting fault, Plains All American Pipeline entered into a $60M settlement with the federal government for natural resource damages costs from the Refugio Oil Spill off the Santa Barbara County coast in 2015.
Without admitting fault, a pipeline company found criminally responsible in a massive Santa Barbara County oil spill has agreed to pay $60 million in civil penalties for natural resource damage.
Plains All American Pipeline LP has been the subject of several criminal and civil actions in state and federal courts, after crude oil spilled and polluted the ocean when its pipeline ruptured northwest of Santa Barbara on May 19, 2015. Th...
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