BP Plc sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its suspension from new federal government contracts following the company’s guilty plea to a pollution charge over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, reports Bloomberg news service.
BP said the U.S. government continued to buy fuel from and sell oil leases to the company “for more than two and a half years after the Deepwater Horizon accident on April 20, 2010,” according to a complaint filed Aug. 12 in federal court in Houston, reports Laurel Brubaker Calkins of Bloomberg news service.
The company said 21 BP entities were suspended “without any prior notice” in November 2012, and its exploration and production unit was disqualified from all federal contracts in February, Bloomberg reports, after that unit pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of the U.S. Clean Water Act tied to the worst offshore spill in U.S. history.
