A Valdez Oil Spill in Ecuador’s Jungle

The World

Producers Sandy Tolan and Nancy Postero report on the environmental legacy of Ecuador’s 20-year-old oil industry. Since the early 1970’s, more than 10 million gallons of oil have been spilled into the country’s Amazon rainforest, and millions more gallons of toxic waste have been poured into the region’s rivers.

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