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 ...

The oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on this day in 1989, causing a massive oil spill. Val Kilmer, 'Top Gun' and 'Batman Forever' star ...

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.

slammed into Alaska’s Bligh Reef just after midnight on March 24, 1989. The accident, as noted by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, came after the ship diverted from established shipping ...