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The Spillage Voice
EPA says oil spill in Brooklyn, N.Y., may be larger than originally thought |
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14 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:04 AM on 14 Sep 2007 A giant oil spill that's been languishing underground in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Greenpoint neighborhood since at least the 1950s might not be as big as first thought -- it's likely even bigger! Initial estimates pegged the spill, which came from a number of petroleum facilities in the 1950s, at 17 million gallons, but a new U.S. EPA report says the spill could be as large as ... |
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| Topics: New York City, news, oil, toxics (all these topics) |
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