He said the government would declare a state of emergency to release extra funding to avoid a fuel spill.

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Meanwhile, in Jiangxi, water supplies "return to normal" after a fuel spill in Lake Poyang cut off tap water for 60, 000 residents, China Central Television reports.

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Their effort recently took advantage of NASCAR workers using Tide to clean up a fuel spill at a race, which resulted in 350 million impressions to consumers who ordinarily might not be thinking about Tide.

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No port would have agreed to accept a boat that was threatening to spill millions of gallons of fuel, he says.

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Officials and environmentalists have expressed concern that the ship's fuel, at full load at the start of the cruise, could spill into the sea.

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