Shattered by Oil: Exxon Arkansas Spill and the People Left Behind, Part 1

InsideClimate: On March 29, 2013, an ExxonMobil oil pipeline that runs under a tiny residential neighborhood in Mayflower, Ark. split open and spilled 210,000 gallons of Canadian dilbit across backyards and streets and in waterways. InsideClimate News spent months reporting the spill [3] on the ground. In Part 1 of "Shattered by Oil" [4]—an ICN co-production with This American Land [5]—Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth McGowan [6] returns to Mayflower, Ark., to explore the fate of residents who are living with the......

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