The federal government filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal district  court in New Orleans — U.S. v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al. – seeking damages under the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act for all costs and harms caused by the BP disaster, including damages to the environment.  For a copy of the complaint, click here.

At a press conference yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the civil lawsuit stating in part “[t]he United States has sustained, and will continue to sustain significant costs and damages” and it “seeks in this action the imposition of Clean Water Act civil penalties for each barrel of oil that the defendants discharged into the Gulf of Mexico.”  For a copy of U.S. Attorney General Holder’s statement and related press release, click here.

We will continue to follow developments on this and other Deepwater Horizon-related issues, so click back to InsureReinsure.com for more information.