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ExxonMobil Sued Over Arkansas Pipeline Oil Spill
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on June 15th, 2013
Environment News Service: The United States and the State of Arkansas Thursday filed a joint enforcement action against ExxonMobil Pipeline Company and Mobil Pipe Line Company in federal district court in Little Rock.
The civil complaint addresses ExxonMobil's illegal discharge of heavy crude oil from a 20-inch-diameter interstate pipeline, known as the Pegasus Pipeline, that ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, on March 29.
A segment of the Pegasus Pipeline ruptured in a residential neighborhood of Mayflower, a town of...
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Deadly Colorado blaze subsides with help from rain
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 15th, 2013
Reuters: Rain and calmer winds helped firefighters tame a deadly wildfire ranked as Colorado's most destructive on record as authorities reported making significant headway on Friday in curtailing a blaze that has destroyed nearly 420 homes outside Colorado Springs.
The fire has charred roughly 24 square miles of rolling, wooded terrain northeast of Colorado's second-largest city since it started on Tuesday, killing two people and forcing some 38,000 to flee their homes.
A firefighting force estimated...