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- Exxon Blames 60-Year-Old Manufacturing Defect for 290,000 Gallon Arkansas Spill Tue, 16 Jul 13, 12:27amPhoto via Shutterstock After an investigation into the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that caused around 290,000 gallons of oil to leak into the small Arkansas town of Mayflower in March, the oil giant has issued...
- US Department of Justice and Arkansas Sue Exxon Over Mayflower Oil Spill Tue, 25 Jun 13, 4:03amPhoto via Shutterstock In March, Exxon's Pegasus pipeline ruptured in the suburban town of Mayflower, Arkansas. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of bitumen from leaked into neighborhoods and waterways from a 22-foot gash,...
- Raw, Unprocessed Cotton Can Be Used to Clean Up Oil Spills Wed, 22 May 13, 3:00amAs long as industry and infrastructure relies on oil to function, there will be spills. Cleaning up such disasters, like the recent Mayflower, Arkansas rupture, can be costly and time consuming. Even the chemicals that are...
- EPA Wants State Department to Reassess Their Analysis of the Keystone XL Pipeline Wed, 24 Apr 13, 4:30amIn March, the State Department issued a controversial analysis of the Keystone XL Pipeline that stated the project would have no significant impact on the environment...
- ExxonMobil Arkansas Tar Sands Spill Reignites Keystone XL Debate Wed, 3 Apr 13, 4:30amOpponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have long warned of the catastrophic impacts of a major spill if the infrastructure were to fail. On Friday, the nation no longer had to imagine how a tar sands disaster would look. The...