The Exxon Valdez ran into a reef on Alaska’s Prince William Sound. It caused a massive crude oil spill, estimated to be around 11 million gallons. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating ...

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 ...

On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. At the time, it was the single biggest spill ...

An environmental catastrophe in the Gulf could rival the Exxon Valdez disaster, shipping analysts warned, as ageing tankers ...

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The environmental damage from an oil spill triggered by a deadly blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to surpass that of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, some observers say.

An Anchorage jury today agreed with ExxonMobil that it had fully reimbursed six municipal governments for oil spill response labor and expenses stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident. The 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 987-foot tanker, carrying 53 ...

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 ...