On March 24, 1989, just after midnight, a massive oil tanker ran aground in one of the most pristine marine environments in North America. Within hours, black crude oil was spreading across the icy ...

When he filed the first major lawsuit after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, famed California lawyer Melvin Belli proclaimed, with a measure of glee, "There will be native Alaskans, sea otters, ...

Oil Pollution Persists from Exxon Valdez Spill Twenty years ago, the single-hulled Exxon Valdez tanker collided with the Bligh Reef in Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the ...

In March 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, puncturing multiple cargo tanks. The accident released millions of gallons of crude oil, creating ...

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 ran into a reef on Alaska’s Prince William Sound. It caused a massive crude oil spill, estimated to be around 11 million gallons. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...