2015 Event The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turns polluter by accidentally releasing a million gallons of heavy-metal-laden mining wastewater into Colorado's Animas River while investigating a Superfund site 2015 Event Oil spill cleanup continues at Refugio State Beach in California after a pipeline burst two days ago; about 21,000 gallons of oil have been released into the ocean and 105,000 gallons on land 2007 Event Earthquake in Japan damages nuclear power plan releasing 300 gallons of radioactive water 1994 Event Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) 1992 Event Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill 1989 Event Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska 1989 Event Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil 1988 Event Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil 1988 Event Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn 1985 Event Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil 1984 Event Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire 1984 Event Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire 1984 Event Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil 1984 Event Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River 1982 Event Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil 1981 Event Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane 1981 Event Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision 1980 Event Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak 1979 Event Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster 1978 Event Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1977 Event Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons 1976 Event Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground 1919 Event 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
