Efforts under way to contain Alaska oil spill
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Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Islands.
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An oil spill near a fragile wildlife reserve off Alaska, unleashed when a freighter snapped in two last week, appears to be less serious than initially feared, officials said Monday.
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The terms of a proposal to develop and ship North Slope gas have Alaskans up in arms.
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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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The search for six crew members missing from a wrecked cargo ship off an Alaska island has been suspended, and authorities are focusing on the cleanup of spilled bunker fuel oil from the vessel, an official said on Saturday.
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In a win for environmentalists, the   U.S. Interior Department says it is willing to withdraw   sensitive wetlands from a large area in Alaska's western Arctic   region that it wanted to open next week to oil and natural gas   drilling.
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Fuel oil from the Selendang Ayu has reached a fishing community 50 miles from the wreckage of the grounded freighter, prompting new concerns about the effect of last month's spill in the Bering Sea.
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Authorities were trying to determine the origin of a fuel spill that could threaten coral reefs off Puerto Rico, the government said Thursday.
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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.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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Salvagers have begun removing oil from tanks on a freighter that broke apart last month off Alaska, spilling most of its estimated 442,000 gallons of fuel onto the shoreline.
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With harsh weather tilting the bow half of a freighter wrecked off Alaska two weeks ago, up to 316,000 additional gallons of oil are thought to have spilled from the ship.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - U.S. and Alaskan authorities   on Thursday demanded $92.2 million from Exxon Mobil for   environmental damages linked to the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident.
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Seabirds who survive an oil spill can help track the spread of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the event.
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Fuel oil is spilling out of a Malaysian freighter that snapped in two off the US state of Alaska, threatening the fragile ecocystem of the Aleutian islands.
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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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ANCHORAGE, United States  - An oil spill near a sensitive wildlife reserve unleashed when a freighter snapped in two off Alaska last week appears to be less serious than initially feared, officials said.