Tag: oil spill
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Noble Energy Spills 7,500 Gallons of Crude Oil into Colorado’s Poudre River
A storage tank damaged by recent flooding dumped 7,500 gallons of crude oil into the…
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BLM’s Failure Pollutes Colorado River Water Supply With Oil
The poorly-designed oil ponds, which had not been built to withstand a storm, overflowed during a forecasted rainstorm, dumping perhaps thousands of gallons…
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Federal Study Warns Oil Industry Nowhere Near Prepared for Spill in Arctic
A new study from the National Research Council is warning that neither the science nor the currently available…
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Texas Oil Spill Expected to ‘Get Much Worse’ for Wildlife
The oil spill off the coast of Galveston, TX, has the potential to get a lot worse than previously expected. The 168,000 gallons of thick, sludgy fuel oil that escaped a barge—whose hull was breached after a collision with another ship—is proving extremely difficult to contain. As of yesterday morning, oil was reported as far as…
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Texas Oil Spill Expected to ‘Get Much Worse’ for Wildlife
The oil spill off the coast of Galveston, TX, has the potential to get a lot worse than previously expected. The 168,000 gallons of thick, sludgy fuel oil that escaped a barge—whose hull was breached after a collision with another ship—is proving extremely difficult to contain. As of yesterday morning, oil was reported as far as…