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headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. it's 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" spill. here's our chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian. >> reporter: a cbs news invest...

>> reporter: they're all dead? >> yes. >> reporter: and we've learned no one in the government knows just how many industry incidents there are. >> if you don't even know how many releases are occurring, if you don't 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 here's what we found for just 2010. not counting the b.p. disaster, at least 6,500 spills, leaks, fires, or...

headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. it's 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" spill. here's our chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian. >> reporter: a cbs news investi...