Rushing oil through pipes: The risks, consequences and role of human error in spills
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Oct 27, 2021
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FBI joins investigation of Orange County oil spill
The FBI has joined the investigation into the oil spill that dumped thousands of gallons of crude off the coast of Orange County to determine whether any criminal violations occurred, the agency announced Thursday.
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Oct 15, 2021
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California oil pipeline could have been leaking a year: investigators
A fractured pipeline that spewed crude oil off the coast of California could have been leaking for a year, US investigators said Friday.
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Oct 9, 2021
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Orange County oil spill leaves many clues, dead ends and mysteries, but few answers
Nearly a week after a 13-inch tear in an undersea pipeline resulted in a massive oil spill off the Southern California coast, the clues keep piling up, but the mystery of what caused the rupture and who is ultimately responsible ...
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Oct 8, 2021
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Video shows damaged pipeline responsible for oil spill off Orange County coast
A video of the sea floor off the Orange County coast this week shows damage to an oil pipeline that sent an estimated 144,000 gallons of crude into the ocean, fouling beaches and threatening ecologically sensitive wetlands.
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Oct 7, 2021
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Coast Guard investigates cargo ship that was in the area of massive Orange County oil spill
The U.S. Coast Guard investigated a vessel in Oakland on Wednesday as part of its probe into whether a ship's anchor punctured an oil pipeline off the coast of Orange County and spilled 144,000 gallons of crude.
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Oct 7, 2021
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From the sky, Coast Guard monitors movement of California oil spill
It was nearly 2 p.m. Tuesday when the Alenia C-27J Spartan, a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft, began its flight along the Orange County coast.
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Oct 6, 2021
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Frantic fight to protect coast as worsening Orange County oil spill stalks beaches
A huge slick of oil stalked the California coast Tuesday as officials frantically tried to protect ecologically sensitive shorelines and investigators probed whether a ship's anchor caused a pipe breach that sent tens of ...
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Oct 5, 2021
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How rail accidents with hazardous materials affect people's property values
A decade ago, U.S. crude oil was not transported by rail in the United States—not one drop. After an unprecedented expansion of domestic energy production, the use of trains became more common.
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Dec 16, 2020
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Researchers introduce new theory to calculate emissions liability
A comparison of the results for conventional point source pollution and bottleneck carbon emissions sources shows that oil and natural gas pipelines are far more important than simple point-source emissions calculations would ...
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Aug 25, 2020
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