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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/bp-sues-government-oil-spill_n_3746314.html
HOUSTON -- BP on Monday sued the U.S. government over a decision to bar the oil giant from getting new federal contracts to supply fuel and other services after the company pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
BP is seeking an injunction that would lift an order by the Environmental Protection Agency that suspends the company from such contracts.
The Houston Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/1eFijiB) that the suspension by the EPA was first issued in November 2012 and it only affects new federal contracts and not existing ones.
The company was ineligible for new contracts worth up to $1.9 billion to provide fuel to the federal government this year because of the suspension. BP has been a major supplier of fuel to the U.S. military.
The newspaper reported the company said in court papers filed in Houston federal court that the EPA's decision to suspend the company from such contracts and its continued enforcement of that order is arbitrary, capricious and "an abuse of discretion."..............
