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Months after oil train derailment, crude still found Alabama swamp
2014-03-15 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Environmental regulators promised an aggressive cleanup after a tanker train hauling 2.9 million gallons of crude oil derailed and burned in a west Alabama swamp in early November amid a string of North American oil train crashes. So why is dark, smelly crude oil still oozing into the water four months later? The isolated wetland smelled like a garage when a reporter from The Associated Press visited last week, and the charred skeletons of burned trees rose out of water covered with an iridescent...
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