Some 11 million gallons of crude would leak out of the Exxon Valdez in what was then the largest oil spill in U.S. history, and one that Lawn had long warned could happen.

An important discovery was made on the remote Alaskan island of Shuyak, 54 air miles north of the Kodiak Archipelago.

A Jan. 29 Business article incorrectly referred to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster as the largest oil spill in history. (Published 1/30/04) A federal judge in Alaska yesterday ordered Exxon Mobil ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill. The 987 ...

The disaster, the worst oil spill in U.S. history, prompted Congress to pass a law in 1990 banning single-hull tankers such as the Exxon Valdez from domestic waters by 2015.

At that rate, the spill could easily eclipse the worst oil spill in U.S. history the 11 million gallons that leaked from the grounded tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989 in ...

Gulf oil spill bigger than Exxon Valdez. by GREG BLUESTEIN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press Writers. Thu, May 27th 2010 at 12:00 AM. Updated Thu, May 27th 2010 at 5:00 PM.

The environmental disaster led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of seabirds and marine animals. Nearly 33,000 Alaskans are in line to share in the award, about $15,000 a person. They would have ...

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council estimates the spill killed a quarter million seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, up to 22 killer whales and billions of fish eggs.

Each year for the past 25 years following the spill, Williams and her Exxon Valdez colleagues have traveled to Alaska to train a new generation of oiled wildlife responders, using the lessons gleaned ...

Nearly 20 years after the spill, scientists disagree on the progress made. Dec. 17, 2008— -- Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill - perhaps the most ...

Exxon-Valdez News : Insights: Blake ... that the Red Sea and Yemen's coastline was at risk as the Safer tanker could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska.A U.N ...