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headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. its hard to believe but next week is the anniversary of the b.p. oil disaster. despite that huge wake-up call for the industry and the federal government, spills, leaks, and explosions are still happening virtually everyday. a six-month investigation by cbs news found that spills of crude oil and toxic chemicals last year alone were three times the amount of the exxon "valdez"...

>> reporter: theyre all dead? >> yes. >> reporter: and weve learned no one in the government knows just how many industry incidents there are. >> if you dont even know how many releases are occurring, if you dont even know what the overall consequences are, you can not answer the question with whether or not we are safe or not. >> reporter: so we collected reported incidents at wells and pipelines from three federal agencies and 23 of the 33 oil and gas producing states and heres what ...

headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. its hard to believe but next week is the anniversary of the b.p. oil disaster. despite that huge wakeup call for the industry and the federal government, spills, leaks, and explosions are still happening virtually everyday. a six-month investigation by cbs news found that spills of crude oil and toxic chemicals last year alone were three times the amount of the exxon "valdez" ...