He also was EPA Administrator during the first Bush administration, serving during the Exxon Valdez disaster.
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We have a very important distinction to make between this case and Exxon Valdez.
It worked in Alaska after the Exxon Valdez spill, and it will work in the Gulf.
Sadly, after the Exxon Valdez disastrous oil spill, the United States Supreme Court in Exxon v.
The 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was the previous benchmark for American oil spills, which garnered soap-operatic coverage.
W. Bush, Bill was Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and his tenure encompassed the Exxon Valdez disaster.
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In total, 230 million gallons spilled out, 20 times the volume of the crude oil from the Exxon Valdez.
Incidents like the Gulf spill, or the Exxon Valdez disaster in Prince William Sound, Alaska, are horrific but rare.
Following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the industry recognized the need to enhance its capacity to address oil spills.
But a 1990 amendment to the EPCA, passed in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, eased these requirements.
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Because you kind of think of an oil slick coming in en masse, and you think about the Exxon Valdez.
Unidentified Man: By this afternoon, the Exxon Valdez had leaked 265, 000 barrels of oil into the waters of Prince William Sound.
Both Exxon and NASA faced similar urgencies after the wreck of the Exxon Valdez and the failure of the space shuttle Columbia.
Their findings suggest the spill has already eclipsed the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, which was the worst environmental disaster in US history.
Lest anybody think Nolting is hopelessly late to this game, he jumped into the Exxon Valdez spill a year after it happened.
Halliburton, for example, argues it is immune to all suits under a law passed after the Exxon Valdez disaster--the Oil Pollution Act (OPA).
Three incidents Santa Barbara (1969), Exxon Valdez (1989), and the Deepwater Horizon (2010) illustrate the oil and natural gas business is not risk-free.
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But even if the Gulf spill never compares in size to the Exxon Valdez, it could have serious ecological repercussions if it makes landfall.
He probably wasn't drunk like the captain of the Exxon Valdez.
But a group of government scientists reporting to the Exxon Valdez Trustee Council, a state and federal board that oversees restoration, have reached a different conclusion.
Then the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, generally regarded as one of the worst-managed crises of all time, showed how it should not be done.
Gliding across Prince William Sound by kayak, you can't imagine that the 986-foot Exxon Valdez ever spewed a drop of crude oil, let alone 11 million gallons.
Ten years ago, on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled almost 11 million gallons of oil into Price William Sound, killing more than 5, 000 sea otters.
Those curious to relive the spill's details should get hold of the excellent, out-of-print book by Art Davidson, In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez (Sierra Club Books).
She paused for a moment and said that her administration had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in an ongoing lawsuit related to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in 1989.
Legacy of an Oil Spill: Ten Years After the Exxon Valdez is sponsored by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council and the Alaska Sea Grant College Program.
Fisher has won several landmark cases before the Supreme Court including important rulings on criminal sentencing and a decision upholding financial damages stemming from the Exxon Valdez accident.
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Ten years ago on March 24, 1989, 11.2 million gallons of oil spilt into Alaska's Prince William Sound after Captain Joseph Hazelwood skippered the Exxon Valdez onto Bligh Reef.
In it, he appealed to the Supreme Court to resolve punitive damages litigation arising from the devastating 1989 oil spill in Alaska caused when the Exxon Valdez ran aground.
"Every eight months, nearly 11 million gallons of oil run off our streets and driveways into our waters -- the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, " the report says.
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