Court Overturns Jury Award In '89 Exxon Valdez Spill Federal appeals court rules that $5.3 billion in punitive damages Exxon Corp was ordered to pay for 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, worst in ...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the Exxon Valdez spill was the worst oil spill in North America until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident. It was the worst spill in U.S ...

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 20 Years Later By Byron Pitts February 2, 2009 / 1:14 PM EST / CBS John Platt - a fisherman from Cordova, Alaska - made a pretty penny in the good old days.

Environmental experts say the damage caused by the oil spill unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may equal or even eclipse the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill off the southern coast of Alaska, the worst oil ...

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.

Exxon Mobil Corp. urged a federal appeals court Friday to erase the $5 billion in damages an Alaska jury ordered the oil giant to pay for the 1989 Valdez oil spill. Exxon attorney Walter Dellinger ...

The lives of fishermen in Alaska were forever changed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill more than two decades ago. They're still haunted by litigation, bankruptcy and herring that haven't returned.

A quarter-century ago, after the Exxon Valdez’s captain downed one too many drinks and left a third mate in charge, the oil tanker struck a reef and bled 11 million gallons of oil across 1,300 ...

25 years after Exxon Valdez, oil spills ain’t what they used to be The tanker spills of yore were bad enough. But the rules that covered them don't apply to the tar-sands oil we're now hauling ...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion that killed 11 workers led to an oil spill of 168 million gallons -- dwarfing the amount released by the Exxon Valdez.

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?

Exxon Corp is seeking court permission for the tanker Exxon Valdez, since renamed, to return to Prince William Sound in Alaska, where in 1989 she struck reef and caused nation's worst oil spill ...