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Oil spill grows to 3.5M gallons as BP scrambles

AP reports here at Yahoo News: ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – A growing collection of crippled equipment littered the ocean floor Sunday near a ruptured oil well gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the remnants of a massive rig that exploded weeks ago and the failed efforts since to cap the [...]

‘State of emergency’ as oil slick heads for Gulf coast

CNN reports here: U.S. President Barack Obama says his government will use “every resource at our disposal” to contain a massive oil spill heading towards the Louisiana coast.

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Oil spill pollutes tributary of China’s Yellow River

AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – A tributary of China’s Yellow River has been polluted by an oil spill, state-run media reported Saturday, in the latest environmental accident to threaten the nation’s drinking water.

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