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ExxonMobil Sued for New York Oil Spill

HeadlineJul 19, 2007

Here in New York, state officials have filed a lawsuit against the oil giant ExxonMobil over its alleged failure to clean up million of gallons of spilled oil over the last century. In a statement, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo called the spill in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn “one of the worst environmental disasters in the nation’s history.” Exxon says the suit is unfounded. Studies show Exxon has spilled more than 17 million gallons of oil into the Hudson River — that’s seven million more than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.

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