The Washington Post, May 24th, 2002
Twenty-nine million gallons of petroleum escape into North American ocean waters each year because of human activities or carelessness, yet only a tiny fraction of that environmentally devastating pollution is due to pipeline ruptures or massive oil tanker spills, an expert panel reported yesterday. Instead, nearly 85 percent of those gasoline and oil spills involve land-based runoff from cars and trucks, fuel dumping by commercial airplane pilots, and emissions from small boats and personal watercraft, such as Jet Skis, according to a study by the National Academies' National Research Council...
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