Oil and gas company officials continue cleaning up a crude oil and brine spill in the Pigeon River Country State Forest in Gaylord, Michigan, that turned out to be more than four times larger than initially estimated. Those leaked materials totaled 221 barrels, amounting to more than 9,200 gallons. Read the full story by MLive.
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