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

About 10,000 gallons of crude oil is still buried under the shoreline where the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, and continues to affect wildlife, a group of scientists said. Jeff Short, a ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

The shutdown of a pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude oil on the Santa Barbara coast forced Exxon Mobil Corp. to halt drilling at three offshore platforms, the company said Tuesday.

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The oil leak set off by a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico could be more damaging to the environment than the infamous '89 disaster, say experts.