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Settlements Reached in Northwest Oil Spills: Texaco Refining & Marketing Inc. and U.S. Oil & Refining Co. will pay a total of $14.7 million in penalties and cleanup costs for separate oil spills in Washington state, the Justice Department said. The agreements are the first judicial settlements to be reached under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which was passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in March, 1989.
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