Dozens of lawsuits have accumulated in New Mexico's federal court alleging a conspiracy among the biggest U.S. oil producers.

From poisoned workers to vanishing wetlands, the truth about BP’s toxic legacy in Louisiana is worse than you remember.

In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, but the U.S Supreme Court later reduced that amount to ...

An oil cleanup worker walks through the oily surf at Naked Island on Prince William Sound on April 2, 1989, as beach cleanup goes on in the background, a week after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

The spill cost oil company BP an estimated $61.6 billion, and they still couldn’t contain or recover all the oil that was spilled, said Michel, who worked on the project to assess some of the ...

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council estimates the spill killed a quarter million seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, up to 22 killer whales and billions of fish eggs.

Recovery crews pick up dead sea otters along Green Island, Alaska, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Bettmann Archive He was ...

The Exxon Valdez spill was the worst in U.S. history for more than 20 years before it was surpassed by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, which spilled almost 170 million gallons of crude oil ...

Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the tanker Exxon Valdez when it ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in March 1989, leaking 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in a massive environmental ...

Unpublished studies by state and federal researchers contend that the true cost of environmental damage from the Exxon Valdez oil spill could be as high as $15 billion, according to experts ...