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City Slicker
New Yorkers sue Big Oil over decades-old underground contamination |
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28 Feb 2006 |
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| City Slicker New Yorkers sue Big Oil over decades-old underground contamination The words "oil spill" tend to summon images of remote coastlines and goo-covered wildlife. But one of the nastiest spills going is in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Greenpoint neighborhood: a 17-million-gallon underground oil slick (bigger than the Exxon Valdez disaster) that has spread over an area as big as 41 football fields. A legacy of decades-gon ... |
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