Word: gals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barge loaded with 4.2 million gal. of home-heating oil was pulling away from a terminal near New York harbor last week when two huge explosions tore gaping holes in the hull. Nearly 200,000 gal. of fuel poured into the Arthur Kill, a narrow waterway between Staten Island and New Jersey. For the fourth time this year, a major spill threatened birds, turtles and other wildlife that dwell in the fragile wetlands...
...unit has obtained more than 400 settlements or convictions against individuals and corporations, yielding fines of $26 million and prison sentences totaling 270 years. Among the defendants: Ashland Oil, fined $2.25 million last year for the collapse of a storage tank near Pittsburgh that discharged more than 700,000 gal. of diesel fuel into the Monongahela and Ohio rivers; Texaco, fined $750,000 in 1988 for failing to conduct important safety tests on a California off-shore drilling rig; and Ocean Spray Cranberries, fined $400,000 in 1988 for discharging acidic waste water from its processing plant in Middleboro, Mass...
...then Van de Kamp's rivals had issued their own lamentations about the Feb. 7 accident aboard a British Petroleum tanker that dumped 349,000 gal. of crude oil into an area once known as Surf City, U.S.A. Complained the other Democratic candidate for Governor, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein: "California has ignored the lessons of Alaska." She reiterated / her proposal to create a new department of ocean resources to protect the sea, bays and estuaries. For his part, Republican candidate Pete Wilson reminded a partisan crowd in Los Angeles, "As your U.S. Senator, I have stood...
...told TIME, "The leadership of the drug cartels has received a major blow. A number of members of the cartels have been extradited to the U.S. to face trial. Their leaders are hiding and on the run." In the past twelve months, troops have confiscated more than 1 million gal. of precursor chemicals used in cocaine refinement and 32 tons of cocaine and coca paste, compared with 14 tons in the same period a year earlier. Sixteen suspected cartel traffickers have been captured and shipped to the U.S., and one of the most notorious kingpins, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha...
...tanker American Trader was unloading off Southern California's Huntington Beach last week, a sudden swell caused an anchor to tear a 3-ft. gash in the ship's forward compartment. Working by night, the crew plugged the hole within four hours, but an estimated 300,000 gal. of crude poured into the Pacific. At week's end the oil slick covered a 30-sq.-mi. area and was starting to foul beaches and wildlife refuges...