As Russian oil spill fouls beaches, locals fume over official response
December incident in which two aging oil tankers were caught in a storm and broke in half in the Kerch Strait, spilling 2,500 ...
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Oil Disaster Averted After Sabotaged Tanker Is Salvaged
An oil tanker attacked by Yemen's ... and the risk to global shipping lanes. A spill of this magnitude could have rivaled the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, devastating ecosystems and threatening ...
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Offshore oceanic impacts from the BP oil spill
as well as oil — is a valid concern. Indeed, experience gained during the Exxon Valdez spill indicates that large-scale spills can cause persistent negative effects on coastal wildlife that last ...
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Eighth Amendment
The Supreme Court rejected use of the death penalty for those convicted of child rape Wednesday and cut the punitive damages awarded for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The National Law Journal's ...
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Russia Forms Commission for Major Black Sea Oil Spill
Two tankers carrying a combined 9,200 metric tons of heavy fuel oil sank ... the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989. “But according to global classification, it’s still a major spill that is ...
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Salvage complete of tanker at center of oil spill scare after being hit by Houthi rebels in Red Sea
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An oil tanker that burned ... had warned that a spill from the Sounion would have been “four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster” in 1989 off Alaska.
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Tanker hit by Houthi rebels that threatened a Red Sea oil spill has been salvaged
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker that ... had warned that a spill from the Sounion would have been “four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster” in 1989 off Alaska.