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Oil Pollution
Photo: Emulsified oil pollution from Braer oil tanker washing ashore
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Emulsified oil washes ashore after the MV Braer, a U.S.-owned oil tanker, ran aground in hurricane-force winds off the Shetland Islands. The 1993 spill emptied 93,366 short tons (84,700 metric tons) of oil into the North Sea.
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