The Exxon Valdez disaster happened more than 36 years ago off Alaska's coast, but the catastrophic oil spill still looms over ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court today cut the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million. The court ruled that victims of the worst oil spill in U.S. history ...

Images of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster — seabirds coated in oil, the black slick lapping the once-pristine shores — have ...

More than 11 million gallons of North Slope crude oil poured through the punctured steel hull of a tanker grounded on a wellcharted reef in Prince William Sound on Friday, unleashing the largest crude ...

Nineteen years ago, the supertanker Exxon Valdez, loaded with millions of gallons of crude oil, ran aground in Alaskan waters, resulting in the most notorious oil spill in modern times. After a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. The tanker struck a reef on March 24, 1989, and unleashed ...

A Jan. 29 Business article incorrectly referred to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster as the largest oil spill in history. (Published 1/30/04) A federal judge in Alaska yesterday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp.

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 ...

It may be a quarter century since the Exxon Valdez disaster, yet blobs of oil along Alaska's coastline look as fresh as if they'd been spilled less than two weeks ago. This remaining petroleum might ...

While Greg Trauthwein never assigns me column subjects, each time the Great Ships issue comes around I go with the theme. However, I try to take a view askew on that subject and have found that these ...

The Supreme Court today threw out a $2.5 billion award of punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, ruling that the award should be limited to the ...