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Environment & Energy

unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sat Apr 13, 2013, 08:09 AM Apr 2013

13 Spills. 30 Days. Nearly 1.2 Million Toxic Gallons.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/04/12-3

13 Spills. 30 Days. Nearly 1.2 Million Toxic Gallons.
04.12.13 - 6:00 PM

In gushes, drips, and spills. With leaks, derailments, and ruptures. Oil companies from North and South America have littered the world with more than 1,185,000 gallons of crude oil, tar sands, and other fossil fuel waste in the last month. Tcktcktck has a new infographic that tells the toxic tale...