Mexico pipeline oil spill may take month to clean

Reuters: Two weeks after a pipeline leak in coastal Mexico sent oil gushing into a river, state oil monopoly Pemex has recovered about two-thirds of the spilled crude, but the full clean-up could take another month. Mexico's environmental protection agency, Profepa, is supervising containment of the 1,500-barrel spill that killed fish, injured wildlife and left greasy slicks in the Coatzacoalcos river. "Right now it is more about containing the emergency," Profepa official Sergio Herrera told Reuters.......

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