United States v. Taylor Energy Co. LLC
A settling OPA and CWA defendant that discharged oil from a former oil production facility on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico must transfer to DOI over $432 million currently held in a trust for plugging seafloor oil wells and decommissioning the facility and pay $15 million in civil penalties, $16.5 million to natural resource damages, and over $12 million to the U.S. Coast Guard removal costs.