BP Oil Spill Reaches Kentucky

Own property on the Gulf Coast? Get your damage claim in now before our oil-soaked Congress and White House absolve BP of all blame.

From the Herald:

Two Kentucky residents who own property along the Gulf Coast have sued BP PLC and other companies over the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying their land has been devalued by the growing slick.

Larry O'Bryan and Stephen E. Ernst filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Louisville against eight companies involved with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which sank after an explosion on April 20.

O'Bryan and Ernst, listed in the suit as owning rental property along the coast, want class-action status.

The lawsuit one of more than 100 filed since the rig explosion, which spawned an oil leak that threatens beaches and marshes.

BP America chairman and president Lamar McKay told a Senate committee this week that the company had paid out $15 million in claims through Tuesday.