Oil Spills into U.S. Waters
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Aggregating Oil Spill Data
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) summarizes reported oil spill data in its Pollution Incidents In and
Around U.S. Waters, A Spill Release Compendium: 1969–2000. USCG aggregates the source data into five categories:
marine vessels, pipelines, facilities, other, and unknown. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics has reviewed USCG’s detailed source data
and classified each transportation-related reported oil spill incident by transportation mode. The data presented here are preliminary, as research
on the dataset is ongoing.
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