Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled of crude oil.
Read More at Wikipedia ›SEATTLE (AP) — A 21-year-old northern sea otter who survived the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska died Thursday at the Seattle Aquarium.
Nuka had lived at the aquarium since 2001 after spending the earlier part of her life at a Chicago aquarium.Aquarium officials say Nuka was considered geriatric and her health had been declining over the past several months. Aquarium staff and mammal biologists and her veterinarian decided the time had come to euthanize her.Nuka was the oldest of the aquarium's sea otters....BP is being vilified from the Louisiana marshlands to the White House as its leaking oil well pollutes the Gulf Coast, raising doubts about whether the company can s...
The new presidential oil spill commission will focus on how safety, government oversight and the ability to clean up spills haven't kept up with advances in drilling...
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) — It looks dirty and muddy, a brown mass of weeds with gas-filled berries that allow it to float on the Gulf of Mexico's waters. Sometimes ...
An Ecuadorean judge ruled Monday in an epic environmental case that Chevron Corp. was responsible for oil drilling contamination in a wide swath of Ecuador's norther...
June 17, 2010"Chairman Stupak, Ranking Member Burgess, members of the Subcommittee. I am Tony Hayward, Chief Executive of BP plc.The explosion and fire aboard the De...
So what do we really know about the effects of the oil spill and those with asthma? We are not yet aware how hazardous direct contact and/or inhalation of vapors and...
What will officials ask the chief executive in today's hearing?
ROBERT, La. (AP) — Anger grew along the Gulf Coast as an ooze of oil washed into delicate coastal wetlands in Louisiana, with many wondering how to clean up the mont...
MIAMI (AP) — It's virtually certain that BP and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will face criminal charges and civil penalties that could tr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The population of counties situated along the Gulf of Mexico is rising sharply but demographers warn that the trend won't last because of a constan...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil spill frustration is rampant.The White House is being pounded for not acting more aggressively in the month-old oil spill disaster in the Gulf ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Former Alaska Gov. Walter J. Hickel, who served as Interior secretary under President Nixon until he was dismissed for objecting to the treatmen...
CORDOVA, Alaska (AP) — Communities along the Gulf Coast wondering about what kind of legacy the monstrous oil slick will leave can look no further than the towns alo...
The cargo ship accident that dumped tens of thousands of gallons of thick, tarry ship fuel into San Francisco Bay caused lasting damage to the region's once-plentifu...
(Hypothetical conversation … ) "Hello, Mr. Davis, this is Herman Cain . People tell me you combine the practice of law with crisis communications — I could use your ...
Navy scrapping 2 oil tankers that never sailed
Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico's barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks.The Gulf is lined...
or sue the oil giant for a bigger payday, wait years and risk ending up with nothing.Thousands of business owners, fishermen and others along the Gulf Coast are conf...
The "nightmare well" is dead. But the Gulf coast's bad dream is far from over.Federal officials declared Sunday that the well where the Deepwater Horizon rig explode...
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