Yellowstone River Oil Spill Now Extends 150 Miles Downstream

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Gee, I wonder if we can classify this one as “territorial waters” and prance off to count profits?

All photos: Alexis Bonogofsky/National Wildlife Federation.

You may have missed this: Over the long holiday weekend in the US an ExxonMobil oil pipeline in Montana ruptured, spilling as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, 10 miles west of Billings. Initial reports had the oil traveling 10 miles down the river, but newer reports have it as extending for 150 miles, with the oil tr…Read the full story on TreeHugger