Major Fuel Spill Reported in Alaska
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A major spill of dense, viscous fuel from a freighter that ran aground was menacing sensitive wildlife habitat in the Aleutian Islands, but finding the six crew members lost
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.  Workers were filling a 1,000-gallon tank with the chemical at Pioneer Americas Inc.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As the search for six victims of a rescue helicopter crash was scaled back, officials on Friday turned to a growing problem stemming from the break up of a cargo ship off Alaska: a major oil spill near a sensitive wildlife refuge.
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Officials shifted their focus from  rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on  Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship  split apart two days earlier, spilling its fuel oil, and six  crew members went missing.
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Coast Guard officials Monday said an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska's coast probably amounted to thousands of gallons less than had been feared.
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WASHINGTON  - Authorities near Philadelphia battled to contain an oil slick after a Cyprus-flagged tanker on its way to a Citgo refinery spilled 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of crude into a nearby river, the US Coast Guard said.
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By JAIME ESPANTALEON  OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian cruise ship that ran aground on a remote Antarctic island leaked 130 to 200 gallons of diesel oil in the fragile environment, the Norwegian Polar Institute said Friday.
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FARMINGTON -- A tanker truck spilled about 500 gallons of diesel fuel it was hauling after catching fire Saturday on U.S. 89.  About 2 p.m., as the tanker merged from I-15 onto U.S.
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Kansas officials said on  Monday they were trying to contain damage from a significant  oil refinery spill that occurred over the weekend as raging  floodwaters wreaked havoc through the southeast part of the  state.
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Oil producer BP Plc   began shutting down on Sunday the biggest oilfield in the  United States, Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, after discovering a small  pipeline leak, cutting output by 400,000 barrels daily and  sending oil prices up nearly 2 percent.
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By Hank Shaw, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 7--SACRAMENTO -- An Alaskan oil services company under federal  investigation in connection with allegations of influence peddling has  contributed nearly $18,000 to Rep.
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A Japanese tanker spilled about 1.4 million gallons of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker's operator said Tuesday.
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At least three wildfires were burning Friday in southern Alaska with lightning strikes threatening to start more blazes.  The Big Su fire near the Susitna River and the Caribou fire on the Kenai Peninsula had both spread over thousands of acres this week, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
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A tanker spilled about 114,000 litres of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 32-kilometre-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, US officials said
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Mar. 1--A leaky vehicle has spilled diesel fuel on southbound Highway 99, starting at the Crows Landing Road onramp and leading to a store on Hatch Road.
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. June 4 (Interfax) - Oil spills have been discovered near two wells operated by Russian oil company Rosneft (RTS: ROSN) in the north of Sakhalin, non-governmental organization Sakhalin Environmental Watch (EVS) said in a press release on Monday.
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DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska - In the first few days after 1989&#39;s Exxon Valdez disaster, fishermen were forced to fell trees and drop them across favored spawning streams to halt the spread of oil.