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 (AP) — Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has ...

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 ...

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 ...

A multimillion-dollar tussle that started with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill moved closer to completion last week when the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that attorney fees awarded following litigation ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Joseph Hazelwood, ...