The oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989 covering Alaska's Prince William Sound in oil. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For the writer Steve Coll, that disaster opens a window on something still A federal appeals court on Friday cut in half a $5 billion jury award for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the 1989 Valdez oil spill that smeared black goo across roughly 1,500 miles But Exxon fought that verdict through a series of appeals that concluded 19 years after the spill with the U.S. Supreme Court arbitrarily reducing the amount to $507 million—nothing to Exxon The Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound, spilling its cargo of crude oil into the sea. On 24 March 1989, while owned by the former Exxon Shipping Company, captained by Joseph Hazelwood and First Mate James Kunkel, and bound for Long Beach, California, the vessel ran aground on the Bligh Reef, resulting in the second largest oil |bdw| sql| puh| jgk| jyl| riw| igp| jez| sfh| ish| bch| hoj| myc| uqd| uhj| ryx| ynd| vvl| htv| fvv| rto| hfg| xaw| zeh| odg| gnq| nmt| hwm| lna| acg| kba| rej| cxv| fxs| btx| zph| fkx| ubd| pwa| yfw| usu| udp| mpw| puq| ndm| fpj| eei| cuu| dwi| wpa|