Sentence examples for major spills from inspiring English sources

Pipelines designed to flex have snapped -- Katrina's damage may include 10 major spills.

Mr. Tillerson admitted that the only way to deal with major spills was to keep them from occurring.

There have been no major spills from American platforms since then, because of tighter regulation and improved technology.

While no one knows exactly how much is dumped, estimates suggest that the total each year dwarfs many major spills that get far more attention.

Since the spills, the pipeline industry has emphasized that oil lines remain safe and reliable, and that major spills are rare.

In the early 1980's, major spills of the DDT-like pesticide dicofol in Florida led to the "feminization" of the reproductive tracts of male alligators.

Government and industry have to improve their capacity to respond to a major spill.

The Environmental Protection Agency classified the leak as a "major spill," Exxon Mobil said.

BP is also now facing accusations of covering up safety problems that threaten a major spill.

Opponents contend that the study failed to take the potential impacts of a major spill into account.

But as Deepwater Horizon demonstrated, it takes a tremendous amount of resources to clean up a major spill.