YSTAD, SwedenEfforts to clean up an oil slick caused by a sunken Chinese vessel along the southern coast of Sweden over the weekend were effective in stopping an environmental catastrophe, the Scandinavian kingdom's environmental authorities said.Thanks to some 550 volunteers, by the evening of June 7 about 1,700 tons of heavy fuel oil had been removed from the coastline, Ewa-Gun Westford, spokeswoman for the environmental authorities, told the local news agency TT.As a result, central Swedish environmental authorities turned over responsibility for the rest of the cleanup to local municipa...
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