CREDO Action Petition to EPA: strip BP of all federal contracts

[ima_sinnic]

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/epa_bp/?r_by=&rc=paste2

... If the Obama administration is serious about making BP pay, there is a very simple and powerful tool at its disposal: the EPA can take away BP's billions in federal contracts.

The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to bar BP from receiving U.S. government contracts. Suspension of BP contracts would mean the loss of billions of dollars and effectively stop the company from drilling in federally controlled oil fields both on and offshore.

Discretionary debarment is among the most serious actions EPA can take. EPA's own regulations allow the agency to ban BP from future contracts after considering "the frequency and pattern of the incidents, corporate attitude both before and after the incidents, changes in policies, procedures, and practices."

Prior to the current Gulf spill, EPA had linked BP to at least four instances of criminal misconduct, and BP has paid tens of millions in fines for environmental crimes. According to the public interest investigative journalists at Pro Publica, the EPA is considering re-evaluating BP and determining whether the company's actions leading up to and following the Deep Horizon spill are evidence of an institutional problem inside BP that would qualify for debarment action. ...

more, and petition: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/epa_bp/?r_by=&rc=paste2

[ima_sinnic]

1. kick

[EFerrari]

2. And kicK

[rhett o rick]

3. k & r & vote

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4. K&R

BP has dumped more than 700,000 gallons of Corexit, a world record.....still defying the EPA....unreal

[ima_sinnic]

5. kick