Al Jazeera: At least two large oil spills have been confirmed in the wake of Colorado’s historic floods — with almost 20,000 gallons of oil being spilled into Colorado rivers — raising fears of contamination and questions about the regulation of the state’s growing oil and gas industry.
On Wednesday, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said that a 5,000 gallon tank had spilled oil into the South Platte River near the town of Millikin in flood-ravaged Weld County — the most heavily drilled county in the state, with…

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