State Attorney General Liz Murrill has asked the federal government to drop a $128 million lawsuit against insurance companies over the longest-running spill in U.S. history — leaking off Louisiana's coast for 21 years and counting — arguing that the legal effort to recover costs harms the local energy industry.

The lawsuit pertains to a spill that began in 2004, when Hurricane Ivan caused an underwater mudslide that toppled a Taylor Energy–owned oil platform near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Since then, as much as 29,000 gallons of oil per day have leaked from the site, according to federal estimates.

More than 20 years after the platform toppled, the spill is ongoing, though much of it is being captured by a containment system .

After settling a lawsuit with Taylor Energy

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