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                    [Title] => 25 years later, Exxon Valdez spill effects linger
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Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-21 05:33:11 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1242916 [AuthorName] => Dan Joling [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://imageshack.com/a/img34/1002/w6ma.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1090221 [Title] => Cavite oil spill nearly gone - guv [Summary] =>

Only 1 to 2 percent of the leaked diesel is yet to be cleaned up in Rosario, Cavite following the Petron oil spill that affected 50 square kilometers of water, Governor Jonvic Remulla said.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-14 16:45:27 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4291/cte1.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 781205 [Title] => BP faces billions in fines as spill trial nears [Summary] =>

On the cusp of trial over the catastrophic 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, phalanxes of lawyers, executives and public officials have spent the waning days in settlement talks.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 761113 [Title] => Shell oil spill off Nigeria likely worst in decade [Summary] =>

An oil spill near the coast of Nigeria is likely the worst to hit those waters in a decade, a government official said Thursday, as slicks from the Royal Dutch Shell PLC spill approached the country's southern shoreline.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-23 08:32:18 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 746297 [Title] => Amnesty: Shell must clean oil spill in Nigeria [Summary] =>

 Amnesty International says the shell oil company must clean up a 3-year-old spill that has wrecked the livelihoods of tens of thousands of farmers and fishermen in southeastern Nigeria.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-10 16:03:02 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 678086 [Title] => Day of remembrance: 1 year after Gulf oil disaster [Summary] =>

Relatives of the 11 men who died aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are flying over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, back to the epicenter of the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history.

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They said the probability of it happening was very remote.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 599395 [Title] => BP oil spill: By the numbers [Summary] =>

How wrong can you be in estimating an oil spill? The first few days after the tragic April 20 blowup of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the US Gulf Coast, BP estimated a spill rate of 1,000 barrels per day. This was further revised to 5,000 barrels a day.

 

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1325532 [AuthorName] => Francis L. de los Reyes III Ph.D. and Mia C. de los Reyes [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 599048 [Title] => Biologist using Noah's Ark idea to save sealife [Summary] =>

On the chance that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens some sea creatures with extinction, naturalist Jack Rudloe hopes his laboratory can save them. 

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-03 18:46:27 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 587849 [Title] => Little spent on oil spill cleanup technology [Summary] =>

While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-27 14:06:33 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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