Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

This oil spill could impair marine mammal reproduction in the Gulf for decades, as some orca whales that were exposed to the Exxon Valdez oil spill haven’t been able to reproduce since that spill in ...

An oil tanker attacked by Yemen's ... and the risk to global shipping lanes. A spill of this magnitude could have rivaled the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, devastating ecosystems and threatening ...

as well as oil — is a valid concern. Indeed, experience gained during the Exxon Valdez spill indicates that large-scale spills can cause persistent negative effects on coastal wildlife that last ...

The Supreme Court rejected use of the death penalty for those convicted of child rape Wednesday and cut the punitive damages awarded for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The National Law Journal's ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An oil tanker that burned ... had warned that a spill from the Sounion would have been “four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster” in 1989 off Alaska.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker that ... had warned that a spill from the Sounion would have been “four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster” in 1989 off Alaska.