In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the social and environmental impacts of ExxonMobil's vast ...

The Exxon Valdez grounding looks like a straightforward failure to turn, but the real story is a chain of small decisions under pressure, from timing and helm inputs to fatigue and oversight. This ...

California learned the hard way that oil drilling and healthy oceans don’t mix, writes Dennis Kelso, a former UC Santa Cruz environmental studies professor who served as Alaska commissioner of ...

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.

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 ...

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

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Spotlighting the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill In advance of the Feb. 27 arguments in the punitive damages case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, an effort has been launched to remind the public (if not the ...

After years of bouncing back and forth in appeals courts, the Exxon Valdez litigation may finally have reached the end of the line in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - and a potential resolution ...

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 ...