California learned the hard way that oil drilling and healthy oceans don’t mix, writes Dennis Kelso, a former UC Santa Cruz ...
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One ship. One reef. Decades of damage

The Exxon Valdez spill unfolded in less than half an hour, but its damage lasted decades. A routine deviation to avoid ice ...
ANCHORAGE, 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.
When he filed the first major lawsuit after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, famed California lawyer Melvin Belli said, "There will be native Alaskans, sea otters, beavers marching into court for ...