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Mississippi River barge backup tops 1,000 after oil spill
2013-01-30 20:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 1,000 barges were backed up on the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Wednesday after a weekend barge accident and oil spill forced the closure of the major shipping artery, the U.S. Coast Guard said. An 80,000-gallon tanker barge that struck a railroad bridge on Sunday continued to leak crude oil, but cleanup crews have deployed 2,800 feet of boom to contain the spill and airborne spotters have not detected any oil outside the containment area. Response crews will...
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Jan. 29, 2013 1:03 p.m.Arizona copper mine to pay $60K fine over spill
2013-01-29 23:52:41| Waste Management - Topix.net
Authorities say a southern Arizona copper mine has agreed to pay a $60,000 fine to resolve water quality violations over a 2010 pipeline spill.
BP Wins Final Approval of Guilty Plea Over Gulf Oil Spill
2013-01-29 23:35:53| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
BP Plc won final approval of a $4 billion guilty plea that resolves all criminal charges against the company related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico .
DNR, Canadian National work to clean train fuel spill
2013-01-29 13:31:38| Railroads - Topix.net
KAUKAUNA - The state's Department of Natural Resources is working alongside Canadian National Railway to clean up diesel fuel that leaked from a train's punctured tank within the city Friday evening.
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Enbridge Resisting Final Clean-Up of Its Michigan Oil Spill
2013-01-28 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate News: Two and a half years after the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the company responsible for the disaster is balking at digging up oil that still remains in Michigan's Kalamazoo River. The cleanup has been long and difficult because the ruptured pipeline was carrying bitumen, a heavy oil from Canada's tar sands region. Bitumen is so thick that it can't flow through pipelines until it's mixed with liquid chemicals to form diluted bitumen, or dilbit. When more than one million gallons...
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