The recent study from the National Academy of Sciences estimates that that runoff the gentleman talks about from our driveways, our parking lots and our roads, these oils, solvents that wash into our rivers, estuaries, and oceans are the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez every 8 months, almost 11 million gallons of oil and gasoline in the course of a year, an Exxon Valdez and a half every year.
Discussing environmental pollution from runoff during a floor speech.
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