Record settlement reached in 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill

Federal, state, and local officials announced a settlement in which owners of a container ship, which struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled 1,261 bbl of fuel oil into the bay, agreed to pay $44.4 million to resolve all penalties, resource damages, and response costs. It was the largest settlement under the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, they noted on Sept. 19.

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