Associated Press: China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts -- marred by the drowning death of a worker, his body coated in crude -- continued over 165 square mile (430 square kilometer) stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. The slick emptied beaches as its size doubled ......
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Pipeline repaired as China works to contain spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
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