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Oil Spill Worsens Floods

Malfunction at Kansas factory unleashes gallons of crude into water torrents

By Caroline Zimmerman,  Newser User

Posted Jul 3, 2007 2:30 PM CDT

(Newser) – The floods overwhelming the Midwest worsened today as 42,000 gallons of crude oil accidentally released from a refinery on Sunday made its way farther downstream. A malfunction at a plant in Coffeyville, Kan., on the Oklahoma border, contaminated flood waters with a thick, pungent...   Read full story »

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