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Today in Peace and Justice history on March 17, 1978 [View all]
The oil supertanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground and, in the worst oil spill ever, lost its entire cargo of 1,619,048 barrels (223,000 tons). A slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long polluted approximately 200 miles of France’s Brittany coastline. http://bit.ly/Zjt2ty
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