Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, numerous U. S. Senators attempted to pass a bill to raise the $ 75 million cap limit to $ 10 billion, retroactive to before the spill occurred.

Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the construction of berms designed to prevent oil from reaching the fragile Louisiana wetlands ( which would result in massive erosion ) was proposed early on, and was officially approved by the federal government in mid-June, 2010, after numerous failures to stop and contain the oil leak with more advanced technologies.

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