A former BP rig supervisor was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months' probation for a misdemeanor pollution charge connected to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing investigations of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A lawyer for BP PLC entered a not-guilty plea for the company as it was arraigned on charges stemming from a deadly 2010 rig explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.