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; the impact of the spill can be fatal; there are many possibilities to clean the oil spills; there are responsibilities that the community must fulfill to help the environment, and that I must fulfill too. Oil spills happen for many reasons.

There are many explanations for an oil spill. The Prestige had spilled oil because the ship ran into weather problems. Then the ship hit a rock. This led to the leaking of oil. The Exxon Valdez spilled because the captain of the ship had been intoxicated and was not competent enough to operate the ship. The Hawaiian Patriot, a Liberian ship, spilled in the northern Pacific Ocean because the ship caught...