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Article: SEN. FEINSTEIN INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO PREVENT OIL SPILLS LIKE COSCO BUSAN INCIDENT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 10, 2008
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The office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today introduced legislation to prevent oil spills like the November 2007 Cosco Busan incident, when a 900-foot cargo ship crashed into Bay Bridge and spilled more than 53,000 tons of toxic bunker fuel into the San Francisco Bay.
The Cosco Busan spill was an environmental disaster. More than 2,900 seabirds were affected, commercial fishing and crabbing was suspended for up to three weeks, and 26 beaches along the San Francisco Bay shoreline were closed for up to a week as the oil washed ashore. All told, the economic impacts are expected to total more than $50 million.
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