The accident, as noted by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, came after the ship diverted from established shipping lanes in order to avoid icebergs. About 11 million gallons – about ...

Just like the Exxon Valdez, this shipwreck is preventable… if we act immediately. Just as many Americans remember where they were when they got the news about the 9/11 attacks, many Alaskans ...

The shipwreck of the Exxon Valdez happened almost 20 years ago. But many Alaskans feel like they live with the lasting damage caused by the oil spill every day. Today, a civil suit filed by ...

Fortunately, like the Exxon Valdez, this shipwreck is preventable. At the time of the spill, I served on the Executive Committee of United Fishermen of Alaska and remember the visceral outrage ...

A typical BP ship cost $250 million ... radar to detect the icebergs that can damage tankers. The 1989 wreck of the Exxon Valdez marked the end of Joe Hazelwood's career as a tanker captain.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in Exxon's appeal of a civil suit that awarded $2.5 billion in punitive damages to victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez shipwreck and oil spill in Alaska.

Gulf Spill Surpasses Exxon Valdez Spill as Worst in U.S. History ... billion in punitive damages to victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez shipwreck and oil spill in Alaska. The National Law Journal's ...

(Pre-Exxon Valdez, Folley said ... Coast Guard officials and Dan Magone, owner of Unalaska’s most experienced shipwreck-removal company, said maintaining such a tug would cost millions of ...

The Long Island-based captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground off Alaska in 1989, causing one of the worst environmental disasters in the country’s history — has died ...

061, meaning that during the wreck his ... and turned the ship over to a subordinate unlicensed to perform the maneuver necessary to avoid running aground. The Exxon Valdez hit the reef, spilling ...

And created, what I consider to be, the worst ship design in history. Right after the Exxon Valdez disaster, I was asked to perform a study and determine how much less oil would have been spilled ...

The suit says the Golden Ray is the largest shipwreck in U.S. coastal waters since the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Crews pumped out most of the bunker fuel in December 2019, but according to ...