1. China's Oil Spill in the Yellow Sea
... the spill had only spread over 165 square miles, just a small area compared to the 2,700 square miles covered by BP's oil spill (Adams). MSNBC.com further reported that China's spill released approximately 400,000 gallons of oil as compared to the 94 million to 184 million gallons now polluting the ... to strip sulfur from oil after an oil storage tank was replenished by a tanker. Afterwards, workers released oil from other tanks in the area to prevent another explosion (The Huffington Post). Cleanup efforts were much more immediate than those that followed the Gulf incident. 40 oil-skimm...
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