On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. At the time, it was the single biggest spill ...

A sheen of oil spreads into Prince William Sound from the grounded Exxon Valdez tanker on March 24, 1989. In the decades since the spill, which was the nation's worst until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon ...

The Exxon Valdez grounding wasn't just one mistake but a cascade of small failures that lined up at exactly the wrong moment.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 oil leak triggered by a deadly rig blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to cause more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, one of the largest ecological disasters ...

When he filed the first major lawsuit after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, famed California lawyer Melvin Belli said, "There will be native Alaskans, sea otters, beavers marching into court for ...

CHICAGO - One of the last two sea otters rescued from the Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska's coast in 1989 has been euthanized at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, officials said Wednesday. Kenai was ...

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) will host a workshop series to bring together representatives from Alaska and the Gulf Coast region to share experiences, knowledge, strategies, and best practices to ...

NEW ORLEANS — Restoring one of the nation’s major cities will be no easy task — especially when its citizens are dispersed all over the country, oil spills are 80 percent the size of the Exxon Valdez ...

Thirty-seven years ago the Exxon Valdez tanker grounded in Prince William Sound and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil in what was for decades the nation’s worst oil spill. Now, state ...