Oil Spills
An oil spill is the common expression used to refer to the release of crude oil or petroleum into water or on land. Crude oil released in this way represents an evironmental issue of grea...
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Disasters: Oil Spills
Liquid petroleum (crude oil and its refined products such as tar, lubricating oil, gasoline, and kerosene) can be released as catastrophic spills from point sources (e.g., from t...
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OIL LEAKS AND spills into our environment on a daily basis. The public hears about huge oil spills—such as when tankers smash into rocks, break apart in rough seas, run aground in shallow water,...
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Oil spills have been a major problem since oil was first shipped. Oil spills effect the environment in many ways and there are many ways to help the environment. There are many causes for oil spills...
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