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Oil pollution is a dirty affair. Not only does it damage the natural environment, but it also inflicts economic harm, e.g. on fisheries and the tourism industry. So when an accident occurs, costs are made in the form of a clean-up operation and compensation to the economic victims. There are several ways in which these financial consequences of an oil spill can be arranged. In this paper, we analyse the effects of one particular system, the 1990 US Oil Pollution Act (OPA).
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Hendrickx, R. (2007). Maritime Oil Pollution: an Empirical Analysis. In: Faure, M., Verheij, A. (eds) Shifts in Compensation for Environmental Damage. Tort and Insurance Law, vol 21. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-71552-9_7
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