R ead T he B oard !  Please bring your field journal in the box on Lab Table #3  Please get out your Venn Diagram for a stamp. Compare your diagram with your neighbor and add missing details. Monday AP Style!

Exxon Valdez accident March, 1989

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 Pooled oil from the Exxon Valdez sits between rocks on the shore. Most of the spilled oil decomposed. Cleanup crews recovered about 14 percent; 13 percent sank to the sea floor; about two percent remained on the beaches, but today, very little remains. - NOAA

What were the effects of Macando?

Clean up strategies  Physical  Chemical  Biological (bioremediation)

Oil Spill Hair mat

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 Oil spills account for only about five percent of the oil entering the oceans. The Coast Guard estimates that for United States waters sewage treatment plants discharge twice as much oil each year as tanker spills. - Smithsonian Institution

Do oil companies have an interest in protecting the environment?