oil spill
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An Oil Spill Shut Down a Great Lakes Shipping Route but You Probably Didn’t Hear About It
On Thursday afternoon, an oil spill into the St. Mary’s River at the Ontario, Canada-Michigan border halted boat traffic between Lake Superior and Lake Huron for about three hours.
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1.2 Million Litre Diesel Spill Kills Thousands of Animals in Louisiana
A decades-old pipeline spilled 1,192,404 l (1.2 million litres) of diesel into an environmentally sensitive area in Louisiana last month, killing thousands of animals, the AP reported Thursday. The spill happened a little over a year after a safety inspection found that the pipeline was severely corroded — but the pipeline’s owners chose to delay…
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8 Devastating Aerial Photos of California’s Oil Spill
New information about California’s biggest oil spill in decades continues to emerge, as federal and state officials scramble to contain the damage and lawmakers call for changes and accountability.
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First-Ever Spill of ‘Frankenstein Fuels’ Occurred Last Year, Researchers Find
A new analysis takes a look at what the authors say is the environmental impact of the first-ever spill of a new kind of marine fuel oil. The fuel was developed in response to regulations intended to lower sulphur emissions from the dirty shipping industry but is raising more environmental questions as it’s more widely…