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Article: Top 10 News Stories.(2008)(American Commercial Lines L.L.C. into investigations for oil spill accidents)(shipping companies to have personal identification cards for their workers)(cost vessels to take care of flooding)
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- December 1, 2008
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This year's top stories included several disasters--flooding, an oil spill, two hurricanes and a shipyard fire. Other big news events over the past year include the ongoing saga over the federal government's transportation worker ID program, Jones Act disputes, and the Coast Guard's Deepwater program. As a kickoff to 2009, we take a look at the Top 10 News Stories of 2008.
1 OIL SPILL CLOSES MISSISSIPPI RIVER
In the early morning hours of July 23, a tow made up of the 420,000-gal., double-hulled tank barge DM932 and the towboat Mel Oliver veered into the path of the 600' tanker Tintomara on the Mississippi River at New Orleans. The ship cut the barge in ...