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Published 11/02/2009 by Individual.com

Environmental cost of Puerto Rico refinery fire hard to measure

The Oct. 23 fire at an oil refinery in Puerto Rico caused an environmental disaster whose extent is hard to measure, biologist Arturo Massol said.

Massol, a University of Puerto Rico professor with 15 years of experience in restoring polluted ecosystems, told Efe Monday that he thought the fire...

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