Crews mop up oil on Yellowstone River in Montana

Exxon Mobil contractors put absorbent sheets over oil that came into the backyard of a home along the Yellowstone River near Laurel, Mont. on Monday July 4,2011. An estimated 1,000 barrels of oil spilled from a ruptured pipeline underneath the river. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

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LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. acknowledged under political pressure Monday that the scope of its pipeline leak into the Yellowstone River could extend far beyond a 10-mile stretch of the famed waterway.

As the company intensified its cleanup

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