The Exxon Valdez grounding wasn't just one mistake but a cascade of small failures that lined up at exactly the wrong moment.

On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. At the time, it was the single biggest spill ...

A sheen of oil spreads into Prince William Sound from the grounded Exxon Valdez tanker on March 24, 1989. In the decades since the spill, which was the nation's worst until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon ...

The Exxon Valdez ran into a reef on Alaska’s Prince William Sound. It caused a massive crude oil spill, estimated to be around 11 million gallons. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating ...

CHICAGO - One of the last two sea otters rescued from the Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska's coast in 1989 has been euthanized at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, officials said Wednesday. Kenai was ...

NEW ORLEANS — Restoring one of the nation’s major cities will be no easy task — especially when its citizens are dispersed all over the country, oil spills are 80 percent the size of the Exxon Valdez ...

1. January 1991 – During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces intentionally release 252-336 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf. 2. April 20, 2010 – An explosion occurs on board the BP-contracted ...

Thirty-seven years ago the Exxon Valdez tanker grounded in Prince William Sound and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil in what was for decades the nation’s worst oil spill. Now, state ...