Lawn was one of the first responders to reach the 986-foot-long Exxon Valdez after it went off course and punctured its hull on Bligh Reef in a debacle that marked its 30th anniversary Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court Friday cut in half a $5-billion jury award for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the 1989 Valdez oil spill. The case, one of the nation’s ...

“We felt like the ducks and seagulls from the Exxon Valdez,” said firefighter Kevin F. McNiff, 47, who spent hours fighting the fire inside the Summer Street plant with his company from Ladder 18.

In 1990, a scientist began visually documenting Prince William Sound’s recovery from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. When funding ran out, volunteers took over. By J. Besl/Hakai Magazine Published ...

Gulf Spill Surpasses Exxon Valdez Spill as Worst in U.S. History President Obama called the Gulf Coast spill an "unprecedented disaster" as estimates for the leaking oil surpassed the Exxon Valdez ...

As the Exxon Valdez oil tanker bled 750,000 barrels of crude into Prince William Sound, a child was about to be born into a very chaotic world. That child belonged to William Bixby, a local attorney ...

the law firm distributing the Exxon Valdez settlement funds to plaintiffs says that "a substantial number" of checks have yet to be deposited. Deckboss calls it ironic, and after all the ...

“My eyes were watering from the oil fumes even at 1,000 feet,” recalled Rick Steiner, who flew over the Exxon Valdez oil tanker on March 24, 1989, only hours after it had plowed into a cold ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A fire on a reformer at Exxon Mobil Corp's 564,440 barrel-per-day (bpd) Baytown, Texas, refinery was quickly extinguished on Wednesday, said people familiar with plant operations.