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ASU Researcher: Oil Pipeline Spills Happen Almost Daily In U.S.

Published: Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 4:10pm
Updated: Friday, June 19, 2015 - 10:13am
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An oil pipeline that ruptured last month in Santa Barbara, Calif., leaked upwards of 100,000 gallons of oil along the Pacific Coast.

A historian says pipelines spill pretty much every day somewhere in the United States.

Christopher Jones, who teaches history in ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, has researched the history of oil pipelines.

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