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Exxon Valdez Summary
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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 lighted channel marker guarding a shallow stretch of Prince William...
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Exxon Valdez : Environmental Health Terms
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An oil tanker that ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on 24 March 1989. The resultant oil spill was calculated at nearly 39,000 tonnes of oil, which, although not the largest oil spill in the world by any means, was certainly one of the most...
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Exxon Valdez Information
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Exxon Valdez was the original name (later Sea River Mediterranean and eventually Mediterranean) of an oil tanker owned by the former Exxon Corporation. It gained widespread infamy after the March 29 1989 oil spill in which the tanker, captained by...


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The Boston Globe
Remember the Exxon Valdez
03/24/1999: 350 words, approx. 1 pages
Compared with the coastline of Alaska's Arctic Wildlife Refuge, Prince William Sound is a placid pond. The $2 billion, three-year, 11-million-gallon cleanup of the sound after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which occurred 10 years ago today, is nothing compared with the devastation a...
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The Washington Post
The Exxon Valdez Settlement
03/15/1991: 472 words, approx. 2 pages
FISH ARE back in great numbers in Alaska's Prince William Sound, and last summer's catch was large. The sea otters appear to be flourishing again. It's been two years since the Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in the sound and lost a...
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AP News
Diesel spill hits Prince William Sound
7/24/2007: 267 words, approx. 1 pages
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.Fuel from the Nordic Viking, which grounded Saturday night, had reached an island used as a resting...
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AP News
Feds eye money used for wildlife center
8/1/2007: 622 words, approx. 2 pages
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 familiar with the probe.The Commerce Department and the Interior Department's inspector general are assisting in looking at...
 


 

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