The Colonial Pipeline will be shut down through the end of the week, following an explosion that killed one person and injured several others in Alabama on Monday.
This is the second issue with the pipeline in the last few months: it was shut down after it leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline in September. That led to gas prices going up and shortages at some Atlanta gas stations.
Contractors were working on a project related to repairs from the earlier leak when this latest accident happened. A machine called a trackhoe hit the pipeline, rupturing it.
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