Bennet: BP Agreement to Set Up Fund Important Step to Ensure Gulf Recovers, Taxpayers Not on Hook
Move Comes After Bennet Calls for Special Account to Pay for Economic Damages, Clean-up Costs
Jun 16, 2010
Washington, DC – Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, issued the following statement on BP’s preliminary agreement with the Obama administration to place $20 billion in an escrow for those affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico:
“Although we still have a long way to go before we get to the bottom ...