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 ...

Within days of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, pictures of dead otters, fish, and birds, as well as oil-covered shorelines, ignited nationwide outrage and led to a backlash against Exxon.

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.

He explores how the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 shaped the culture at the company for years to come. ... The oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989 covering Alaska's Prince William Sound ...

Twenty-five years ago, the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. Americans found themselves cleaning up another giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

About 40 Montana landowners have reported contamination of their property by crude oil spilled from a ruptured Exxon Mobil pipeline into the flood-swollen Yellowstone River over the weekend, the ...

(42 million L) Exxon Valdez disaster, the federal government put in place regulations mandating that all oil and oil-shipping companies have spill-response plans and teams of workers on staff or ...

On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. At the time, it was the single biggest ...

Twenty-five years ago the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, Calif., ran aground off of the south coast of Alaska. The vessel released 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William ...

A jury in Baltimore County, Maryland on Thursday found oil company Exxon Mobil liable for a gasoline spill three years ago and ruled it must pay residents $150 million in damages.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the$2.5 billion punitive damages award in the Exxon Valdez disaster to$500 million, a decision that could have broader implications for limiting how much courts ...