Long time Levees.org ally Robert Verchick has joined with other experts in calling for Governor Bobby Jindal to veto Senate Bill 469.

The reason is, according to their analysis, S.B. 469 may allow BP to deny paying claims from its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf.

Professor Verchick is no hack. Harvard and Stanford educated, Verchick holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University and has served as Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the EPA in 2009 and 2010.

According to a memo addressed to Governor Jindal that Verchick has co-authored, the enrolled version of S.B. 469 awaiting action by the Governor “actually poses a new and significant risk to local and state government claims under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA”)”

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