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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

Monday (March 24) marks the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which spewed 11 million gallons (40 million liters) of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. The disaster was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exxon Valdez oil spill workers recover and clean birds soiled by crude oil spilled when the tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, April 6, 1989. (Bob Hallinen/Anchorage Daily News/MCT ...