Relief over &#39;Less Severe&#39; Freighter Fuel Spill
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US Coastguard chiefs say an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska is probably thousands of gallons less than they feared.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, NFLD. -- An environmental assessment panel predicted seven years ago how hard it would be to clean up oil spills from a project off Newfoundland that spilled 170,000 litres into the Atlantic last week.
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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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Authorities checked for fuel leaks Saturday on a coal freighter run aground by a storm that brought flooding, landslides and blackouts in eastern Australia. Two people whose car was swept off a bridge were killed, and a family of five was missing.
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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  - 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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Temporary resumption of fuel and food shipments to territory comes amid warnings of humanitarian crisis
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The international Red Cross delivered more aid in Lebanon on Wednesday, and U.N. officials said they negotiated with Israel safe passage for two oil tankers to sail into the country to help ease a growing fuel crisis.
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As locals, volunteers, and soldiers continue to clean a week after a 10,000-ton spill, some wonder if a faster government response could have mitigated the disaster.
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A cargo ship that ran aground, split in two and poured fuel oil into the Bering Sea in December ranks as one of the biggest spills in Alaska, dwarfed only by the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, state environmental officials said on Thursday.
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Limited shipping could resume on the  Delaware River south of Philadelphia as early as today after an  oil spill late last week halted vessels, the U.S. Coast Guard  said.
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WASHINGTON - NASA takes a major step toward returning astronauts to space when engineers this week ship an improved rocket fuel tank refitted to avoid the falling debris that caused the destruction of Columbia and the deaths of seven astronauts.
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One of the world&#39;s biggest humanitarian relief efforts came to life yesterday as warships, helicopters, search aircraft, transport planes and refrigerated containers
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The US Coast Guard was helping to clean up an oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia Saturday, hours after a vessel leaked the crude into the waterway, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.
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With the weather improving Sunday, the Coast Guard planned to send a helicopter to lower a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska&#39;s coast -- a
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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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The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a freighter that broke in two pieces when it ran aground off Alaskaâs coast, seen as a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles.