exxon valdez oil spill
Territory begins when the supertanker Exxon Valdez owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska. Exxon then appealed the punitive damages to the Supreme Court which capped the damages to US5075 million in June 2008. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill In Pictures Valdez Exxon Oil Spill An estimated 126 million barrels 37000 tonnes of oil eventually spilled into the water. . The spill was the largest in US. Among the scientists that work in ORRs Emergency Response Division are chemists. On March 24 1989 the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound AK spilling an estimated 11 million gallons 42 million liters of crude oil that spread as a surface slick Figure Figure1. 3 In 1991 the estimated cleanup costs of the Gulf alone were 210-540 million. Bush signed the Oil Pollution Act OPA into law and authorized use of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund OSLTF the F...