On Thursday, in the same Anchorage courtroom where the Exxon Valdez criminal case played out 24 years ago, the same federal judge, H. Russel Holland, heard attorneys tell him that the state and ...

Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions ...

After years of bouncing back and forth in appeals courts, the Exxon Valdez litigation may finally have reached the end of the line in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - and a potential resolution ...

The Exxon Valdez grounding looks like a straightforward failure to turn, but the real story is a chain of small decisions under pressure, from timing and helm inputs to fatigue and oversight. This ...

Spotlighting the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill In advance of the Feb. 27 arguments in the punitive damages case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, an effort has been launched to remind the public (if not the ...

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.

Twenty years ago, the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled at least 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s pristine Prince William Sound. The consequences of the spill were epic and continue to this day, ...

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 ...