Lawn spent a long day on board assessing the damage as oil gushed out. There would be no quick and coordinated spill response to slow the spread. Some 11 million gallons of crude would leak out of the ...

COVINGTON, La. (AP) - An untested procedure to plug the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico seemed to be working, officials said Thursday, but new estimates from scientists showed the spill has ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - 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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 -- A federal appeals court on Friday cut in half a $5 billion jury award for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil in the 1989 oil spill that smeared black goo across 1,500 miles ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An engineering professor has figured out why oil remains trapped along miles of gravel beaches more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Prince William Sound.

VENICE, La. -- An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control and started washing ashore Thursday night along the Gulf Coast as fishermen rushed to scoop ...

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 ...

ROBERT, La. — As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez ...

* BP spill could be nearly twice the size of Exxon Valdez * US estimates BP well spewing at least 12,000 barrels/day * Flow rate at least twice the size of BP estimates By Chris Baltimore HOUSTON, May ...

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 ...