Photo via Bay News 9 The $20 billion escrow fund that Obama negotiated with BP is now being finalized, and BP is preparing to deposit the first $3 billion into it. The fund will help pay for the many claims being filed by Gulf residents who have suffered personal damage, lost their jobs, or had their businesses ruined by the BP spill. But the process, predictably, isn’t going so smoothly for everyone. Out of the 145,000 claims filed so far, BP has yet to respond to nearly 40,000 of them — leaving thousands of businesses and livelihoods in the balance. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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$20 Billion BP Spill Fund Finalized, But 40,000 Claims Still Ignored
