http://www.epa.gov/oilspill/
This site is a government website ran by the environmental protection agency, it gives you information on how oil spills are responded to and what not to dump in water
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/oil_spills.htm
Now this website is for younger people it's good for younger children because it provides a brief over view of what an oil spill is , how is it prevented,etc
https://secure.defenders.org/
This website is a website for people who want to volunteer or donate to the fight against off shore drilling, you can also adopt an animal that has been affected by oil spills
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov
This is good educational website ran by NOAA it's designed for teacher's and students who want to learn more about oil spills, the response program, and specific oil spills such as Exxon Valdez
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography-book/oilspills
This a chapter about a book on Oceanography it's very brief but it provides and overview and some very useful statistics
http://earthsci.org/mineral/energy/gasexpl/spill
This is a piece of information from Australian Institute of Petroleum, it talks about the problem of oil spills specifically in Australia
http://www.itopf.com/information-services/data-and-statistics/statistics/
this website is ran by The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited
it provides a lot of statistics on oil spills from tankers and different types of vessels
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/oilspills
These are federal statistics about oilspills in america, they provided official numbers about the amount of oil being dumped
http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus
these are statistics about the amount of oil being dumped in oceans surrounding the united states
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100507-science-environment-gulf-mexico-oil-spill-cleanup-bacteria/
This article is about how nature is fighting back, to help clean up the gulf of mexico through natural process like bacteria eating away the oil
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