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Oil industry nightmare: Trillions of gallons of toxic wastewater exposed

Trillions of gallons of toxic wastewater quietly move through the American oil industry each year, a hidden flood that rivals ...
CHEK News

‘Not disposal sites’: Snuneymuxw calls for action after oil spill, toxic sawmill effluent discharge at Duke Point

Snuneymuxw First Nation is calling on other levels of government to act to protect its waters following an oil spill and long-standing discharge of "toxic sawmill effluent" at Duke Point near Nanaimo.
Berkshire Eagle

Garage fire in Lenox sparks state cleanup of hazardous waste spill

LENOX — Firefighters on Friday quickly put out a fire in a Lenox home garage. However, the response prompted a hazardous waste cleanup. That's because water from firehoses mixed with waste oil ...
Yahoo

6 months after toxic mine spill in northern Zambia, US Embassy orders personnel out of the area

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — The United States Embassy in Zambia ordered all U.S. government personnel Wednesday to leave a region in the north of the country affected by a toxic spill from a ...
KUNM

New report shows oil and gas spills in New Mexico have decreased, but spill volume is up

There were over 38,000 oil and gas spills in New Mexico last year. That’s according to a report released yesterday at the ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Scientists test giant fire tornado to clean oil spills faster and with less smoke

Researchers from Texas A&M and UC Berkeley have successfully conducted the first large-scale experiment ...