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Officials in Lafourche Parish work to clean up oil spill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A storage tank spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil in a southern Louisiana parish, threatening drinking water and wildlife as officials work to clean it up.

The storage tank spilled Saturday morning southwest of New Orleans at a crude oil facility owned by the company Crescent Midstream. About 34,000 gallons (136,000 quarts) of oil leaked from the facility.

The spill…

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