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Oil Spills
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Oil Spills
This paper discusses oil spills: The role of the U.S. Coast Guard in controlling tanker traffic and safety, reguations, costs, clean-up and double hull ships.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
4 sources |
1991
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"Oil spills have become painfully familiar since the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground on a reef in Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. Spilling some eleven million gallons of crude oil and fouling more than seven hundred miles of shoreline, national wildlife refuges and national parks, the disaster caused the death of more than 36,000 migratory birds and many other species of wildlife and woke up the public to the catastrophic environmental and economic results of oil spills.Consequently, Congress and other governmental agencies and environmental groups are riding a groundswell of support for tighter regulations on the shipping industry, targeting among other things the need for double hull standards for all oil-carrying vessels and making alcohol testing mandatory."
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Oil Spills (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 11, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Oil-Spills/18687
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"Oil Spills" 15 January 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Oil-Spills/18687>
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