Much of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits on top of a 55-acre oil spill that is 50% larger than the Exxon Valdez spill off the coast of Alaska. Decades of oil refining on the industrial Newton Creek left 17-million gallons of oil under the ground and in the water. About half of that oil has been cleaned up - leaving some 8 million gallons. And many residents in this working-class neighborhood want to know why ExxonMobil–the company believed to be mostly responsible for the spill–isn’t cleaning up the spill more rapidly, and why the State hasn’t pushed ExxonMobil and others harder.
This episode originally aired May 11, 2007, there have been few updates to the case since then.
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[...] of the featured stories/videos on the site is the New York Voices piece on the Newtown Creek/Greenpoint Oil Disaster that GBK originally covered back when it first aired. Much of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood [...]