Chevron

FARMINGTON -- During the month of October, filling up your car will help local students participate in classroom projects that would otherwise be unavailable.

SALT LAKE CITY — Chevron Corp. has spent $75 million to clean up environmental damage caused by two oil pipeline leaks in 2010, health officials said.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A popular urban lake in Salt Lake City is open again 11 months after being used to contain thousands of gallons of oil that leaked from a Chevron Corp. pipeline.

SALT LAKE CITY -- It's not quite the Gulf Coast, but Salt Lake City has developed a persistent problem with oil spills. This week the federal Department of Transportation ordered Chevron to temporarily close a pipeline running through Salt Lake City after the second spill there in six months.

The first incident happened in June, while Deepwater Horizon was sending thousands of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. The pipeline, which carries oil from a western Colorado terminal to a Utah refinery, leaked, sending 800 gallons into the Jordan River. That river, which runs through the city, empties into Great Salt Lake, a major bird refuge. Federal regulators recently fined Chevron almost $424,000 for that spill.

Then, on the evening of Dec. 1, the pipeline leaked again as temperatures plunged below freezing and a valve cracked. This time, 500 gallons of oil spilled toward a local creek, though only trace amounts have been found in the water.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A second oil leak in six months in Salt Lake City has Chevron Corp. on the defensive and the mayor calling for a troubled pipeline to be shut down indefinitely.

Fire officials said about 100 barrels of crude oil leaked late Wednesday from a pipeline valve about 500 feet from the scene of a larger oil spill in June that fouled Red Butte Creek. The latest spill stopped short of the creek and was being contained with booms and earthen dams.