Worst Oil Spill in Five Years Off S. China Coast
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Two container ships collided and spilled some 450 tons of fuel oil off China's southern coast, the country's worst oil spill in five years, a maritime official said on Thursday.
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The most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades slammed into its southeastern coast Thursday, destroying hundreds of homes and battering the region with rain and wind after more than 1.3 million people were evacuated, state media reported. At least two people were killed.
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Environmental watchdog Greenpeace has begun assessing the damage caused by the Philippines' worst ever oil spill amid reports that the captain of the ill-fated tanker was not properly trained to handle the ship.
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A Cypriot tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, Coast Guard officials said Saturday.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Jennifer Ludden gives an update on a 30,000-gallon oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia and takes note of &quot;Buy Nothing&quot; day.
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When the freighter Kuroshima ran aground on Unalaska Island the day before Thanksgiving 1997, conditions were terrible for stopping an oil spill.
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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&#39;s coast probably amounted to thousands of gallons less than had been feared.
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Sulfur dioxide spill sends 40 people to hospital in northeast China    SHENYANG, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- About 40 residents in a city in northeast China were hospitalized after a sulfur dioxide spill from a petrochemical company, local government sources said on Wednesday.
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At least 161 people have died in China as the country battles the worst flooding in a century. Villages downstream on the Yangtze River are braced for further deluges and water levels are expected to peak
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An oil spill off Vietnam has spread along 124 miles of coastline and affected popular tourist spots, but the source still remains a mystery, an official said Monday.
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At least 79 people have been killed and 74 are missing in some of the worst storms southwest China has seen in many years. Disaster relief officials said on Monday that at least 55 were killed and 47 were
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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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An outbreak of blue algae in a Chinese reservoir has left nearly 25,000 people without water and 100,000 others with reduced supplies, state media said on Wednesday of the latest in a series of water pollution scares.
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At least five people are dead and three are missing after China's east coast is hit by Typhoon Wipha.
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Oil spill a mystery   An oil spill off Vietnam has spread along 200 kilometers of coastline and affected popular tourist spots, but the source still remains a mystery, an official said yesterday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A shipping company owned by ConocoPhillips' pleaded guilty to concealing a 2004 oil spill in the ocean off Alaska and was ordered to pay $2.5 million for the offense, officials said.
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Nearly three million gallons (11 million liters) of partially treated sewage and storm water spilled into San Francisco Bay off the coast of affluent Marin County, officials said on Friday, just months after a major oil spill hit the bay.