Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott held a Shorewood Women's Cruiser Bike Attorney Shorewood Women's Cruiser Bike Attorney press conference Monday to announce that he had met with attorneys general from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to talk about how to protect their states’ threatened natural resources, coastal businesses and taxpayer money after the explosion and British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf.
He said the attorneys general were briefed by BP and the Coast Guard.
Abbott said Texas assets have not been threatened, and the state is unlikely to participate in a lawsuit unless things change. At this point, he said, he wants BP to reimburse the state for his trip to Shorewood Women's Cruiser Bike Attorney Mobile and for long-distance phone costs.
The oil spill “is expanding from a significant ecological” disaster to a “tremendous economic” one, Abbott said.
“The attorneys general are working together to ensure the environment is protected, that coastal businesses will be properly compensated, and to make sure taxpayer dollars will be adequately protected,” he said.
He said he would make sure BP is “living up to its commitment to pay all legitimate claims arising out of the oil spill.”
Right now, he said, there is not yet measurable impact on Texas.
But he said his office is Shorewood Women's Cruiser Bike Attorney “investigating and evaluating the extent to which other parties may have culpability,” naming Halliburton and Transocean, both of which were involved in the drilling work.
“If the state of Texas is not damaged and taxpayers in this state are not impacted, then we’d have to carefully evaluate if it’s appropriate for Texas to be involved in a lawsuit,” he said.
He said authorities would monitor the Texas coast for oil tarballs washed up from the BP spill.
When asked how authorities would Shorewood Women's Cruiser Bike Attorney determine whether they were BP spill tarballs, he said they would watch out for a higher incidence of the tarballs when determining a cause-and-effect relationship.
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