EPA: Michigan oil spill may have exceeded 1M gallons

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Source: AP

POSTED: 7:50 P.M. JULY 28, 2010 | UPDATED: 9:36 P.M. TODAY
EPA: Michigan oil spill may have exceeded 1M gallons
ASSOCIATED PRESS


BATTLE CREEK — The Environmental Protection Agency says it believes more than a million gallons of oil may have leaked this week into a major southern Michigan waterway that leads to Lake Michigan.

The estimate reported tonight from the EPA exceeds earlier estimates from the company responsible for the spill into Talmadge Creek, which runs into the Kalamazoo River, of about 819,000 gallons.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a statement the agency and Enbridge Inc. are taking action on the “serious spill.”

“EPA and other federal and state agencies mobilized immediately in response to this spill and have taken a series of steps to minimize the damage this spill does to the river and surrounding communities,” Jackson said.

The EPA said it has requested the Coast Guard make $2 million available to fund the federal government’s operations in response to the spill. And the EPA will move additional vessels into the area within days to assist in the response.

The EPA has a Web site about the spill in Michigan.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20100728/NEWS06/100728056/1318/EPA-Oil-spill-may-have-exceeded-1M-gallons

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It's getting bigger.

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[ensho]

1. kick

nt

[burrowowl]

2. Almost as much as the Gulf?

What is being done, any news on how they are cleaning this up?

[prolesunited]

3. This is 80 miles away from a lake that supplies drinking water

to five states and millions of people. They better step up the response.

[burrowowl]

4. Drinking for people

and living water for fish, this is horrible.

[highplainsdem]

5. K&R