PETRO MESS.Petrobras President Henri Philippe Reichstul is juggling damage control after his company's third catastrophic oil spill oil spill: see water pollution. in six months. Brazil's state-owned oil company was fined US$94 million for the country's worst oil spill in 25 years after its refinery spewed more than 1 million gallons of oil into a tributary of the Iguazu River The Iguazu River (Portuguese: Rio Iguaçu, Spanish: Río Iguazú) has its source in the Serra do Mar (Mountains by the Sea) in the Brazilian state of Paraná to finish over a thousand kilometers southeast at the Paraná River, in the triple border with Paraguay in southern Brazil. Then, as authorities rushed to keep the oil from contaminating Iguazu Falls and spreading to Argentina, another pipeline released toxic chemicals in the state of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r , affecting the inhabitants
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