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Presidential Gulf Oil Spill Panel Blasts Congress

It's been two years since the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 employees and sparked one of the worst oil spills in history, yet Congress hasn't enacted a single ...
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More Trouble for Ship Run Aground Off New Zealand Coast

The M/V Rena, a Greek container ship that ran aground off the coast of New Zealand last October, faced more trouble this week. In the midst of salvage efforts to recover the 1712 tons of oil and 1368 ...
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Brazil Files Criminal Charges Against Chevron and Transocean for Oil Spill

A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed charges against Chevron and drill-rig operator Transocean this week over a November 2011 oil spill that occurred 75 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The leak ...
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North Sea Platform Leak Continues

The Elgin platform located in the North Sea is continuing to leak gas, so Total SA is considering plans to drill a relief well in hopes of stopping the leak. The cause of the leak is still unknown, ...
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Drydock and Tug Vessels Sink at Washington Shipyard

In an accident that recently took place in an Everett, Washington shipyard, a drydock that was housing a tug vessel sunk. The tug was estimated to be carrying up to 60k gallons of diesel fuel. This ...
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One Month Later, Oil Continues to Spill From Navy Tug

When the 205-foot former Navy tug, the Tug Tiger, sank while moored in the Port of Richmond on December 11, 2011, oil began slowly leaking from the vessel. The cleanup operations almost immediately ...
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