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One of the most disturbing aspects of British Petroleum's handling of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent continuing oil spill is the company's ham-handed attempts to restrict media ...
Now, the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 obviously got an enormous amount of coverage, but it's striking that even incidents like the 1978 Amoco Cadiz accident off the coast of France got far more ...
On Mar. 24, 1989, nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil gushed out of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker off the coast of Alaska. Take a look back at what was the largest oil spill in U.S. history at ...
Exxon reported an accurate timeline of the oil pipeline spill to regulators. But its public comments provided a fuzzier picture of the response, a misstep that has raised suspicions about the company.
"Biological effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill"--P. [2] of cover. Date 1993 Call number QH91.8.O4 E94 1993 QH91.8.O4E94 1993 Type Books Physical description 49 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm Place Alaska ...
In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, but the U.S Supreme Court later reduced that amount to ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld Exxon Mobil Corp.'s settlement with one of the groups that was sharing a $5 billion punitive damage award stemming from the 1989 Exxon ...
They repeat the giving away to Exxon, first a contract, now an oil spill law. Exxon shows that it has learned. Learned its lessons from Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989, and BP with Deepwater ...
We still don’t know the full impacts of the BP oil spill, 10 years later. Science. ... Exxon Valdez changed the oil industry forever—but new threats emerge. Environment.
A United Nations operation to avert a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea by salvaging a decaying supertanker off the coast of Yemen is moving forward this week after years of delays.