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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An oil spill spread out over Puget  Sound on Thursday, covering an area of several square miles of  water just north of the port city of Tacoma, Washington state  officials said.
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BP  said on Wednesday  production at its Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, the largest  in the United States, fell to 110,000 barrels per day (bpd) due  to a technical fault. A company spokesman said the reduced  output would last for several days. Production had previously  been about 200,000 bpd, around half the field's normal output.
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Oil major BP Plc  has shut down  10,000 barrels per day of oil production at its giant Prudhoe  Bay oil field in Alaska after discovering a leaking flow line,  the Anchorage Daily News reported on Saturday.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  -- A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste and other contaminants in Southeast Alaska waters.    The $450,000 project is part of a nationwide look at the environmental health of coastal waters...
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and ecologically fragile wildlife refuge in the Aleutian Islands.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 20--The source of a 900-gallon oil spill into Tampa Bay from Port Manatee discovered Monday has been traced to a roughly quarter-inch hole in a transfer pipe that had been leaking for more than a day.
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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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Description: A freighter carrying more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil breaks up near a national wildlife refuge on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska Rescue teams in Alaska have called off the search for six people missing in the Bering Sea. The crew plunged into the frigid waters Wednesday when a rescue helicopter crashed while evacuating them from a broken freighter.
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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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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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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Plaintiffs in the long-running case surrounding the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a $5 billion punitive fine against Exxon Mobil Corp, a petition filed with highest U.S. court shows.
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press. The spill _ the worst on the river in nearly a decade _ stranded commercial vessels trying to move goods through the busy Port of Philadelphia
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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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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.