Newtown Creek Oil Spill
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In 1950, in what is considered to be the worst oil spill in United States history, 17 to 30 million gallons of oil spilled into Newtown Creek. .
18 Jul 2007 . State attorney general Andrew Cuomo filed suit against oil giant Exxon Mobil to clean up an oil spill along Newtown Creek that is estimated .
Oh the beauty of Newtown Creek . It also happens to be the edge of the massive oil spill (US largest in history - and it hasn't been cleaned! .
26 May 2009 . With an oil spill that carries its namesake and a putrid stench known to inspire headaches, Newtown Creek is the product of decades of oil .
20 May 2010 . Watch Underreported: Update on the Newtown Creek Oil Spill video in the WNYC Video Archive.
Newtown Creek Oil Spill, Newtown Creek, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, 55250, 11/15/1979, Oil and oil products, Oil refinery tank explosion .
24 Jan 2007 . For more information on Newtown Creek and the surrounding . I am going to check out the Greenpoint Oil Spill documentary on vbs.tv. .
19 Mar 2004 . Officials Join Lawsuit Against ExxonMobil On Newtown Creek Underground Oil Spill by Raanan Geberer (edit@brooklyneagle.net), .
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The Greenpoint oil spill is one of the largest oil spills ever recorded in the United . Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of .
4 Jan 2007 . The biggest oil spill Exxon Mobil has to answer for is not the . up Newtown Creek, where yellow plastic booms to contain spilled oil are a .
Does the scale of environmental degradation (the Greenpoint oil spill dwarfed the Exxon Valdez and is the subject of constant litigation) on Newtown Creek .
1 Jul 2009 . The fumes and vapors from raw sewage and oil spills are not only . . is discharging toxic chemicals into Newtown Creek from two pipes .
30 Apr 2010 . The Greenpoint Oil spill has released an amount of oil under Queens and . Newtown Creek, the body of water whereupon the refineries are .
4 May 2010 . Newtown Creek, NY (1940s-1950s). Surprisingly the largest oil spill in American history is one that most people have never heard about is in .
23 Oct 2009 . The Newtown Creek, once a tidal waterway and drainage creek, was unceremoniously . and continuing with Exxon and Empire oil spills. .
9 Feb 2007 . Defense of this oil spill is next to absurd. The fumes which rise off the newtown creek are so severe that one is made nauseous in minutes .
24 Mar 2008 . With at least 17-million gallons of oil — much of it traced to ExxonMobil — the spill underneath and around the city's Newtown Creek is half .
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2 Feb 2006 . Digesting the Scope of Newtown Creek Oil Spill. Categories: Environmental. river. The story is a couple of decades old and this Brooklyn .
Tags: BP, greenpoint, huffington post, louisiana, schumer. Posted in greenpoint oil spill, newtown creek, politicians | 1 Comment » .
28 May 2010 . Unlike the Gulf oil spill, which has only one source and began very recently, the contamination of the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek have .
Oil Spills in the Ocean and Oil Pollution · The Exxon Valdez Disaster 20 Years Later · The Day The Water Died Sierra Club Chronicles · Newtown & Whale Creek .
14 Sep 2007 . Sump pumps are installed along Newtown Creek and 95000 gallons of oil are . He suggests the state's oil spill fund take care of it. .
30 Apr 2010 . But even 18.9 million gallons may pale in comparison to the damage done by New York's own Exxon oil spill at Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, .
They discovered that, although the spill in Newtown Creek is 50 percent larger . Janet and Hassan were surprised to learn that the oil spill doesn't just .
24 Mar 2008 . Newtown Creek is one of NYC's dirtiest little secrets. By now, most folks know about the enormous oil spill that still sits stagnant, .
21 Aug 2004 . Exxon/Mobil and Texaco/Chevron contributed the largest oil spill in the country in the Newtown Creek. 17 million gallons of oil were spilled .
19 Mar 2009 . The Newtown Creek narrative on this site reads amazingly well . is a 17 million gallon underground oil spill caused by Standard Oil's .
17 Jul 2007 . The Coast Guard discovered oil leaking into Newtown Creek in 1978 and a study commissioned by the Coast Guard a year later found the spill .
4 Mar 2010 . Mermaids march in protest against Gulf oil spill . A dolphin was spotted Wednesday in Brooklyn's notoriously polluted Newtown Creek. .
7 Apr 2007 . Bye Bye Birdie, Magic in Greenpoint, Newtown Creek Oil Spill. Bye Bye Birdie The Finger Building Gets Chopped. By Nichole Altmix .
17 Jun 2010 . Independent Sources: Up Newtown Creek . we look at the second largest oil spill in U.S. history that very few people know about. .
31 Aug 2007 . riverkeeper.org — One of the world's largest underground oil spills lurks beneath the shores of Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, .
10 Nov 2009 . 5 comments to LAST GASP: Newtown Creek Oil Watch . like everyone else) but acknowledges that the plume and oil spill have been problems in .
13 Sep 2007 . Newtown CreekThe underground pool of oil near Newtown Creek, . The 17-million gallon spill, the nation's largest contamination of .
26 May 2010 . As we grow more and more distressed by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it's a good time to remember Newtown Creek, .
6 Oct 2008 . A community group in Brooklyn called the Newtown Creek Alliance is . photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (1989) .
Monitor street is spectacular ending in the Newtown Creek Wastewater . oil refining and that underneath is both a huge oil spill and several vapor plumes .
23 May 2004 . After that, heavy industry, sewage treatment plants and oil spills made Newtown Creek a dead waterway. Nature is hardy, however, and some .
In addition to the EPA study, which will assess Newtown Creek's soil, water and air to determine the oil spill's health impact on local residents, .
1 May 2010 . Site of a 17-million-gallon underground oil spill that still contaminates the area, Newtown Creek is currently under consideration by the .
12 Dec 2008 . Newtown Creek was the site of America's first oil refinery: Astral Oil, . Petroleum (see MotherJones' Newtown Creek oil spill timeline). .
What's happening at Newtown Creek Park in Greenpoint right now: Read recent local . largest oil spill - at Newtown Creek on the Brooklyn-Queens border, .
24 Apr 2007 . The Newtown Creek oil spill in not under the residential sections of Greenpoint which is more than I can say about the Willimsburg condos. .
Newtown Creek has a length of four miles. Its natural depth was 12 feet, . . is a 17 million gallon underground oil spill caused by Standard Oil's progeny .
4 Jun 2009 . Damages to Greenpoint and Newtown Creek Due to Oil Spills" . "Weiner Wants Congress Hearings Into Newtown Creek Oil Spill" .
22 Sep 2009 . Known alternately as the Greenpoint spill or the Newtown Creek spill, this massive blob of pollutants is by far the largest oil spill in the .
8 Dec 2007 . “The oil spill, of course, still needs to be cleaned up. There is evidence that the oil has seeped into Newtown Creek. Also, while the fact .
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