Taxpayers, therefore, could be on the hook to cover a large proportion of the damage costs from a marine spill because oil ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking ...

Images of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster — seabirds coated in oil, the black slick lapping the once-pristine shores — have become visual shorthand for the consequences of a major spill.

Caption: In this April 21, 1989, file photo, crews use high pressured hoses to blast the rocks on this beachfront on Naked Island, Alaska. Just after midnight on March 24, 1989, an Exxon Shipping Co.

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 ...

The Valdez Marine Terminal, where North Slope crude oil is offloaded onto ocean tankers. Stakeholders in Valdez are embroiled in a dispute over oil spill protections at the terminal there, at the end ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has ...

Nearly 20 years after the spill, scientists disagree on the progress made. Dec. 17, 2008— -- Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill - perhaps the most notorious ...

When he filed the first major lawsuit after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, famed California lawyer Melvin Belli said, "There will be native Alaskans, sea otters, beavers marching into court for ...

Twenty-five years ago, on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground off the coast of Alaska, eventually spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine waters of Prince ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an ...