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...Days after unknown assailants murdered Mexican journalist Javier Valdez in 2017, who had been highly critical of the government, his widow received text messages that offered details on his murder....
...Probably the largest remaining unknown item is the cost of compensation payments for businesses covered by the 2012 settlement, which have been running far ahead of BP’s expectations....
...In the case of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, the US Supreme Court ruled that punitive damages could be the same again as the compensatory damages....
...In Rumsfeldian terms, analysts are trained to quantify known knowns and known unknowns....
...Using volunteers, most unknown even to each other, it runs an encrypted information system that operates beyond the reach of national authorities that might seek to close it down....
...Transocean has refused to speculate while the causes of the accident remain unknown....
...Luck, the weather and BP’s scramble for redemption may prevent the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from turning into America’s worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989....
...The 1990 Oil Pollution Act, passed a year after the Exxon-Valdez spill in Alaska, limits BP’s liability in federal lawsuits to $75m....
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