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December 12, 2022

Keystone Pipeline Ruptures in Kansas, Causing Its Worst-Ever Oil Spill
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The Department of Transportation has launched an investigation in Kansas
after a rupture in the Keystone pipeline caused a massive oil spill 160
miles north of Wichita. The pipeline's operator, TC Energy - formerly
known as Trans Canada - estimated some 588,000 gallons of oil spilled
into a natural waterway. That's nearly enough to fill an Olympic-sized
swimming pool. It's the largest U.S. crude oil spill in nearly a decade,
and the worst in the history of the Keystone pipeline, which carries oil
from Canada's tar sands to refineries in Illinois and the Gulf Coast.


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