As Russian oil spill fouls beaches, locals fume over official response
Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...
Oil Disaster Averted After Sabotaged Tanker Is Salvaged
The Greek-flagged, Sounion was first attacked on Aug. 21 with small arms, projectiles, and a drone boat by the Iran-backed ...
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Russia Forms Commission for Major Black Sea Oil Spill
Two tankers carrying a combined 9,200 metric tons of heavy fuel oil sank ... the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989. “But according to global classification, it’s still a major spill that is ...
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Salvage complete of tanker at center of oil spill scare after being hit by Houthi rebels in Red Sea
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An oil tanker that burned ... had warned that a spill from the Sounion would have been “four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster” in 1989 off Alaska.
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Eighth Amendment
The Supreme Court rejected use of the death penalty for those convicted of child rape Wednesday and cut the punitive damages awarded for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The National Law Journal's ...
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Tanker hit by Houthi rebels that threatened a Red Sea oil spill has been salvaged
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker that ... had warned that a spill from the Sounion would have been “four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster” in 1989 off Alaska.