Petroleum asphalt remains in Yellowstone River, even after cleanup from train derailment
Wendy Weaver with Montana Freshwater Partners, left, photographs a piece of a railroad tank car in the Yellowstone River, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, near Reed Point, Mont. The piece was located about a mile downstream of a June 2023 train derailment that sent carloads of petroleum products plunging into the river. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
By MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
REED POINT, Mont. — Two months after a railroad bridge collapse sent carloads of hazardous oil products plunging into Montana’s Yellowstone River, the cleanup workers are gone and a mess remains...
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