In 2008, an American Commercial tugboat collided with a tanker ship sailing downriver, causing a collision that spilled more than 282,800 gallons of oil.
The American Commercial Barge Line will pay more than $6.6 million in damages for the 2008 oil spill in the Mississippi River that damaged a shoreline habitat in Louisiana, the Associated Press reported.
In 2008, one of American Commercial's tugboats veered in front of and collided with a tanker ship sailing downriver, according to the, causing a collision that spilled more than 282,800 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River. The oil spread more than 100 miles downriver and over 5,000 acres of the shoreline habitat.
A 2017 ruling also requires American Commercial to reimburse the federal government $20 million for oil removal and damages. That was on top of $70 million spent by the company itself on removal.
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