The Greenpoint Oil Spill on Newtown Creek – Citations
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(Fn 2) Reuters Financial Service. “Mobil Agrees to Cleanup Underground N.Y. Oil Spill.” 10 July 1990, BC Cycle. 61.
(Fn 3) Steve Adams. “The Killing Fields of Grenpoint: Greenpoint’s Environmental Nightmare.” Nov 1996. 3.
(Fn 4) Heidi S. Levine and James F. Gennaro. “Oversight Hearing on the Status of the Mobil Oil Spill Cleanup in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.” Briefing Paper of the Infrastructure Division. Written for the Committee on Environmental Protection. 8-9.
(Fn 5) Mobil Testimony. Transcript of the Minutes of the Committee on Environmental Protection. Hearing transcript, City Council, City of New York. 22 January 1997. 20-23.
(Fn 6) “ExxonMobil Free-Product Recovery Project, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.” Presentation at August 2003 Community Meeting. Presented by NYS Dept of Environmental Protection, US Coast Guard, and ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Company. Compiled by Roux Associates. Slide 11. Sum of recovery figures for ExxonMobil Greenpoint Off-Site Project 1995-2003 and Mobil/Amoco Meeker Avenue Task Force 1979-Oct. 1989.
(Fn 7) “Brooklyn-Queens Aquifer System.” EPA Region 2. Accessed January 2004. http://www.epa.gov/region02/water/aquifer/brooklyn/brooklyn.htm.
(Fn 8) List compiled using Toxicological Profile Information Sheets from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The ATSDR is a subsection of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Accessed Jan 2004. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html#-D-
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(Fn 10) Transcript of the Minutes of the Committee on Environmental Protection. Hearing transcript, City Council, City of New York. 22 January 1997. 71.
