Reuters

Cleaning up fuel tank leaks costs $12 bln: GAO

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cleaning up about half of the 117,000 leaking underground fuel storage tanks nationwide will cost the public about $12 billion, Congress' investigative arm said in a report ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

US military drains fuel from tank facility that leaked fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water

HONOLULUHONOLULU — The U.S. military said it’s finished draining millions of gallons of fuel from an underground fuel tank complex in Hawaii that poisoned 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into ...
Seattle Times

Aging gasoline storage tanks in WA pose environmental hazard, but many owners can’t afford cleanup

VAN ZANDT, Whatcom County — For 49 years, Jeff Margolis and his late wife, Amy, ran Everybody’s Store, a gas station and sandwich stop in this community east of Bellingham. They never made much money ...
Christian Science Monitor

Beneath the surface: Leaky storage tanks pose unseen environmental threats

Leaking underground tanks threaten to contaminate groundwater relied upon by nearly half of Americans. Even a pinprick-size hole in an underground tank can send 400 gallons of fuel a year into the ...