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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska subsidiary of oil company BP PLC is set to plead guilty to an environmental crime today as federal prosecutors released new photos showing the company’s failure to clean out pipelines at the nation’s largest oil field.
BP Exploration Alaska Inc. is set to plead guilty to one violation of the Clean Water Act for a 200,000-gallon crude-oil spill at the Prudhoe Bay field in March 2006, according to a filing by federal prosecutors.
