Twenty-five years ago this week, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Alaska, causing what was then the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Its accident is refocusing questions about the ...

Back in 1989, Exxon executives, including Don Cornett, promised to take care of everyone affected by the spill. "You have my word we will make you whole again," he said at the time.

Updated: Aug. 3, 2010 In March 1989, the Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground on Bligh Reef, ruptured and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill. ... March 24, 1989 The Exxon Valdez oil tanker was carrying more than 50 million gallons of crude oil when it left Valdez, Alaska, on March 23, 1989.

March 25-- Mar. 25--Before dawn on March 24, 1989, Dan Lawn stepped off of a small boat and onto the boarding ladder dangling from the side of the grounded Exxon Valdez oil tanker. As he made the ...

Oil from the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989 may take centuries to disappear, says Exxon. How long will the Gulf oil spill linger?

After all, the Exxon Valdez anniversary coincides with another more recent crude oil spill: Almost exactly one year ago, Exxon’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured in Arkansas, spilling 210,000 gallons ...

It had taken the Exxon Valdez spill and Gov. Cowper's emergency order to force the government and industry to recognize that modern tankers carried at least 15 times more oil than did the standard ...

The environmental damage from an oil spill triggered by a deadly blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to surpass that of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, some observers say.

But the main legacy that environmentalists produced in the wake of the Exxon Valdez was 1990’s Oil Pollution Act.The act set up a structure for oil spill response (mostly, local fishermen ...

March 24-- Mar. 24--Before dawn on March 24, 1989, Dan Lawn stepped off of a small boat and onto the boarding ladder dangling from the side of the grounded Exxon Valdez oil tanker. As he made the ...