Platt is one of the 32,000 original plaintiffs in a lawsuit against corporate giant Exxon Mobil following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, reportsCBS News chief national correspondent Byron Pitts. Eleven million gallons of oil spilled along 1,300 miles of Alaskan coastline. The fishing indust...
The article highlights the 18th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska on March 24, 2007. According to the author, the spill that took place in 1989 dumped 11 million gallons of crude oil into PWS, contaminating shoreline and killing seabirds and ...
This esingle, comprised of stories from The New York Times, is an exploration of the environmental disaster, in which the Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground on Bligh Reef in March 1989 and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. The spill was the worst...
The Oil Pollution Act was established in 1990 in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989. The Oil Pollution Act placed the Federal Government in charge of management and control of oil spills, control of containment, removal and clean up efforts. This law holds who ever is deem...
Scientists in Alaska have discovered that lingering oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill is still being ingested by wildlife more than 20 years after the disaster. The research, published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, uses biomarkers to reveal long-term exposure to oil in harlequin ...
After more than a quarter-century of research and monitoring, scientists now know how the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill affected wildlife species and how long it took most populations to recover, information that might help in future spills. "Because wildlife species in the spill area vary so ...
VALDEZ, Alaska —The toll of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill is a sadly familiar one: 250,000 dead birds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals--all victims of the oil tanker that ran over a reef late one April night and drained 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound. ...
In 1989 the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef located off the coast of Alaska. The Exxon Valdez spilled thousands of barrels of oil into Prince William Sound, which was the biggest oil spill to date. “Thousands of animals and hundreds of thousands of birds died in the day...
ExxonMobil has been involved in several high-profile controversies over the years. These include its role in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, which released millions of gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, and its alleged efforts to mislead the public about the risks of climate ...