Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and will pay the maximum possible statutory fine, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
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The rule that allows companies not to disclose the chemical contents of fracking fluid is called the Halliburton rule. Yup, no endocrine disruptors or cacinogenic chemicals in our fracking fluid.
Meanwhile there has been another blow out in the gulf, this time a gas drilling rig.