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It has been a bad 12 months for North America's oil pipeline system.

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the spill of one million gallons of tar sands oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River, neither the cleanup of that waterway nor the improved pipeline safety regulations and oversight we expected and were promised are finished.

And now we have Exxon-Mobil's spill of more than 40,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River. Once again, it is another ugly wake-up call to Washington that better pipeline safety is needed.

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