On Monday, September 12, 2016, a leak in the Colonial Pipeline in Shelby County, Alabama, spilled an estimated 350,000 US gallons of summer-grade gasoline, requiring a partial shutdown of the

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, and causing gas shortages in much of the Southeastern United States. Six states are affected ( Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia), with Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia declaring

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. The same line suffered an explosion in late October at a site only miles distant.

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