Taxpayers, therefore, could be on the hook to cover a large proportion of the damage costs from a marine spill because oil ...

Caption: In this April 21, 1989, file photo, crews use high pressured hoses to blast the rocks on this beachfront on Naked Island, Alaska. Just after midnight on March 24, 1989, an Exxon Shipping Co.

Images of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster — seabirds coated in oil, the black slick lapping the once-pristine shores — have become visual shorthand for the consequences of a major spill.

The current drama over the Gulf oil spill reminds me of an article some years ago saying that, despite millions spent on massive coastline cleanup following the Exxon Valdez disaster ... The current ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill.

Every day, millions of gallons of oil move from the Arctic through the trans-Alaska pipeline to the small coastal town of Valdez, 600 miles away. There, high above the waters of Prince William Sound, ...

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When he filed the first major lawsuit after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, famed California lawyer Melvin Belli said, "There will be native Alaskans, sea otters, beavers marching into court for ...

"Tenth anniversary edition"--Bk. jacket. The 1990 edition is updated with cause, long-term effects, the 1993 blockade by fisherman, and the billion dollar settlement with Alaska. The new "Tenth ...

It may be a quarter century since the Exxon Valdez disaster, yet blobs of oil along Alaska's coastline look as fresh as if they'd been spilled less than two weeks ago. This remaining petroleum might ...