Sentence examples for resource damage from inspiring English sources

The state first developed regulations for enforcing natural resource damage claims under the Whitman administration.

The cost of the Deepwater Horizon blowout has been huge in both lost income and natural resource damage.

The company noted that "it is not possible to measure reliably any obligation in relation to future claims, including natural resource damage".

The company will pay $7.1bn in "natural resource damage assessment", and the money will be divided among the states and earmarked for environmental cleanup projects related to the spill.

It includes a $5.5bn civil penalty under the Clean Water Act – far lower than the $13bn that the US Government was pushing for – and a $7.1bn payment to the US and the five Gulf states for "natural resource damage".

Federal and state officials are conducting a review known as a natural resource damage assessment to measure the injury to the gulf habitat and devise a plan for restoring it, a process that generally takes years.

BP is liable for natural resource damages and penalties under the Clean Water Act.

It is obliged to pay for any direct "natural resource damages" resulting from the spill.

Meanwhile, $8.1bn will go towards natural resource damages, including $1bn BP already committed to pay for early restoration.

The $1 billion is a first installment on the money BP will owe under the Oil Pollution Act for natural resource damages.

"For these two payments alone, Clean Water Act violations and natural resource damages, BP would be getting away with less than half of what the law would justify," she said.