Exxon Valdez
On March 24, 1989, the 987-foot super tanker Exxon Valdez outbound from Port Valdez, Alaska, with a full load of oil from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay passed on the wrong side of a light...
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Clean-up crews on Monday started mopping up 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled in wildlife-rich Prince William Sound when a fishing vessel grounded there, state environmental officials said....
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Justice Department officials investigating Sen. Ted Stevens are examining whether federal funds he steered to an Alaska wildlife research center may have enriched a former aide, say officials famil...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmentalists love taking
aim at ExxonMobil Corp., which many see as the biggest
corporate culprit in human-fueled climate change. A documentary
on global warming takes ...
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TAEAN, South Korea, Dec 17 (Reuters) - South Korea's worst
oil spill is threatening to enter a bay that is an important
winter rest stop for migratory birds, the coastguard and a
conservation grou...
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OSLO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Exploitation of the Arctic's huge
oil and gas wealth poses a growing danger to an icy wilderness
that can recover only slowly from heavy oil spills, a report by
the eight-...
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New York's attorney general told Exxon Mobil and two other oil companies Thursday that he intends to sue them for taking decades to clean up a giant underground pond of petroleum left by the refine...
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Washington (dpa) - The ecologically sensitive areas off the coasts
of Alaska and Virginia would become fair game for oil and gas
drilling under a proposal by the US governme...
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Washington (dpa) - Nearly 20 years after a wrecked Exxon tanker
dumped tonnes of oil in a remote Alaskan bay, the US Supreme Court
Monday agreed to hear the company's appeal...
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Nov 11 - A severe storm broke a Russian oil tanker in two
between the Azov and Black Seas, stranding 13 crew members and
spilling fuel oil into the sea in what a Russian official said
was an "envi...
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Exxon Valdez
Diesel spill hits Prince William Sound
