A barge spilled oil in the busy shipping channels in Galveston Bay after slamming into a column of the bridge that connects Galveston and Pelican Island in Texas, local officials said. No injuries or fatalities were reported in the incident. The collision occurred on Wednesday after a tugboat operator pushing two barges lost control of them, Associated Press cited David Flores, a bridge superintendent with the Galveston County Navigation District, as saying. The high tide and the “very bad” current were the reasons why the tugboat…
