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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 25 > 400,000 gallons of oil spill into Mississippi

400,000 gallons of oil spill into Mississippi


July 25, 2008

WASHINGTON — Almost 100 miles of the Mississippi River was closed to shipping Thursday after a barge and a tanker collided early Wednesday and spilled more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the heavily trafficked waterway.

The barge was split nearly in half by the collision,....

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