The sighting of oil on the Hudson River came ... such as the 10.8 million gallon Exxon Valdez spill of 1989, or the 17 to 30 million gallons dumped in Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s, Newtown Creek ...
The plume, according to the EPA, spans approximately 45 city blocks along Meeker Avenue, where East Williamsburg and Greenpoint meet ... back in 2005 after an oil spill. While investigations ...