Tanker spills not the major source of ocean pollution
It is consumers of oil -- not the ships that transport it -- who
are responsible for most petroleum that enters U.S. waters says
a new report fromthe National Academies' National Research Council.
Nearly 85 percent of the 29 million gallons of petroleum that
enter North American ocean waters each year as a result of human
activities comes from land-based
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