It had taken the Exxon Valdez spill and Gov. Cowper's emergency order to force the government and industry to recognize that modern tankers carried at least 15 times more oil than did the standard ...

Exxon produces and ships oil, they sell and refine oil, but they don't do crisis management. Consequently the meeting was a disaster for them, especially for Don Cornett.

It’s been 25 years since the Exxon Valdez hit a reef and spilled millions of gallons of oil, polluting hundreds of miles of Alaska’s shoreline. If you were alive during the spill, you can ...

For Americans, the words “Exxon Valdez” are iconic—depending on when you grew up, it was the national crisis that spurred a thousand environmental clubs, donation drives, and grade-school ...

Compared, for example, to how Exxon handled itself with the Valdez spill, BP's brand is tanking since the disaster. And Exxon is a company that never painted itself as particularly eco-friendly or ...

Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot tanker loaded with 53 million gallons of crude oil, slammed into Alaska’s Bligh Reef just after midnight on March 24, 1989. The accident, ...

Tons of Exxon Valdez oil still afflicts the beaches of Prince William Sound, just under the surface -- more persistent than the lessons learned from a disaster that killed 250,000 seabirds and ...

Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill $480 million more in interest on their delayed punitive damages awards as well as cover $70 million in the company’s own ...

On Mar. 24, 1989, nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil gushed out of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker off the coast of Alaska. Take a look back at what was the largest oil spill in U.S. history at the… ...

The Exxon Valdez oil spill was one of the earliest and most devastating examples of the risks posed by a changing climate, many scientists now say — one that ultimately resulted in the polluting ...