Oil Pollution
Prince William Sound,
, nineteen eighty-nine, twelve
gallons of
spilled onto a
in the world’s worst oil tanker accident. In nineteen ninety-two, retreating Iraqi troops torched eight hundred and fifty Kuwaiti oil
and opened the sluices, releasing into the Persian Gulf
as much oil as was spilled by the Exxon Valdez. Headline
like these are devastating to local
and
, but they can be cleaned up. But eight hundred million gallons of oil slip unnoticed under the
every year, much from
illegally rinsing out their
with
, but most from leaking land-based waste sites. We consume fifty seven million
of oil a day, making
,
, heating oil. The more we
, the more we
.