"Crews work overnight after 462,000 gallons went into port waterway" (MSNBC, 2010).
Surfing the web today for a current environmental topic I found one that seems very important and all over the news.
A collision between a 800-foot tanker and a towing vessel spilled about 462,000 gallons of oil. This was the largest spill in Texas in 16 years. There was another spill about 20 years ago involving Norwegian tanker Mega Borg that leaked 4.3 million gallons of crude oil about 60 miles off Galveston. "Two sensitive wildlife areas nearby remain unaffected by the spill, which is mostly contained in a 2-mile stretch of the Sabine Neches Waterway near Port Arthur, about 90 miles east of Houston" (MSNBC, 2010). Nearly half the oil that spilled has evaporated, dispersed or been recovered from the water at this point.
Please read more and see pictures at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35033604/ns/us_news-environment/
Autumn
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