In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, but the U.S Supreme Court later reduced that amount to ...

From the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 to the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010, these environmental disasters have taught us invaluable lessons about the importance of robust safety measures and ...

Dalthorp says his troubles started when the then-out-of-work oil ... the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, says the symptoms being reported in the Gulf states are the same ones that hit workers in Alaska.

2014 Lake Minchumina — In March 1989 a Cat tractor opened the trail from Minchumina to Nenana, and that’s how I happened to volunteer during the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an ...