ExxonMobil's Nigeria unit said on Tuesday it was helping clean up an oil spill near its facility off the West African country's southeast coast, although the company wasn't yet sure what caused ...

Some 11 million gallons of crude would leak out of the Exxon Valdez in what was then the largest oil spill in U.S. history, and one that Lawn had long warned could happen.

With its multibillion-dollar profits and the legacy of the 11-million-gallon Valdez oil tanker spill of 1989, Exxon Mobil offers an easy foil for a politician like Schweitzer.

One deals with the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The other: the death penalty for the rape of a child. NPR's Ari Shapiro covers legal issues, and this week, you're hearing him hosting this program.

You can still dig up sand from the Exxon Valdez [site] and find oil.” In that 1989 ecological disaster, a tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound in Alaska and spilled 11 million gallons of ...

The San Francisco-based appeals court reduced the punitive damages because, in part, the company tried to clean up the spill and didn't spill oil from the tanker Exxon Valdez deliberately.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Exxon Mobil Corp. urged a federal appeals court Friday to erase the $5 billion in damages an Alaska jury ordered the oil giant to pay for the 1989 Valdez oil spill. Exxon attorney ...

An offshore drilling rig in Mexican waters - the Ixtoc I - blew up in June 1979, releasing 140 million gallons of oil. Borenstein reported from Washington.