The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled of crude oil.

* 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $ 15 billion in damages.

* 1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills of petroleum after running aground.

* October 11 – of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky ( considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill ).

* February 27 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.

* March 13 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $ 1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

* March 24 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills of oil after running aground.

victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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Since January 2003, each Akhiok shareholder received $ 200, 000 from sales of a $ 36 million trust fund provided in the Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement.

On the 25th Good Friday after the earthquake, in 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, causing an oil spill that again devastated Chenega and other places around the area economically.

* Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood, the ship's master of the Exxon Valdez at the time of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989.

Smaller spills have already proven to have a great impact on ecosystems, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

In 1990, in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Congress enacted the Oil Pollution Act to consolidate various oil spill and oil pollution statutes into a single unified law, and to provide for a statutory regime for handling oil spill cleanup.

This was the defence response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989.

A figure of was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill's volume and has been used by the State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

We learn that Riker grew up in Valdez, Alaska ; that his mother, Elizabeth, died when he was two years old ; and that he was raised by his father until the age of 15, when he left home.

In 1755, a force of 1, 900 Spanish soldiers led by the captains Simeón Valdez and Pedro Gastambide was sent to Jolo to extract revenge for the raids by Sultan Muiz ud-Din, but those Spaniards were soundly defeated.

Monzón's Middleweight Championship title was lifted in 1975 by the WBC for not defending it against mandatory challenger Rodrigo Valdez.

One of his defenses, against Julio Diablito Valdez, resulted in an after-fight brawl when Serrano was announced as winner by a unanimous decision and went to greet his rival but was received with a punch to the face.

At the end of the season he was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for Curtis Goodwin and minor leaguer Trovin Valdez.

A telegraph line between Eagle and Valdez was completed in 1903.

It was a " cut-off " because it allowed motor travelers from the lower United States to travel to Valdez and Anchorage in south-central Alaska without going further north to Delta Junction and then traveling south on the Richardson Highway.

Connecting Valdez to Anchorage, the Richardson Highway bridge was repaired in two weeks.

* Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood was born in Hawkinsville.

In the late 70s and early 80s, there was a new sound emerging with up and coming groups like McAllen's Espejismo, led by songwriter / lead singer Rudy Valdez, and more notably Brownsville natives Joe Lopez, Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz introduced the keyboard sound to Tejano which was influenced by the Disco sound of the era, and during that period, La Mafia became the first Tejano band to put on Rock Style shows for their generation.

In 1955, Moore again beat Valdez, who by that time was the no.

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was born in San Cristóbal to José Trujillo Valdez, a small retailer possibly of Canarian origin, and Altagracia Julia Molina Chevalier, later known as Mamá Julia, who was of Afro-Dominican ancestry.

Harris has also directed a film on migrant farmworkers and their dismal wages and living conditions ; one of the " stars " of his documentary was Luis Valdez, who went on to direct the film La Bamba.

* 70 Volt Parade was Anastasio's rock-based solo band featuring Ray Paczkowski on keyboards, Les Hall on guitar and synthesizers, and Skeeto Valdez on drums.

Elena was born in Mexico in 1840, the only daughter of Damiana de Barre Valdez and Samual Birkbeck.

The fishing-based Chugach economy was badly affected by the environmental damage caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.

The Alaska corporation commonly known as Alyeska Pipeline Company was founded in 1970 to design, construct, operate and maintain a pipeline to transport oil from the fields on the North Slope of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 to an ice-free deep-water port in Valdez, AK.

Its largest communities are Valdez and Cordova.

Its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

The bill was introduced to the House by Walter B. Jones, Sr., a Democratic Party congressman from North Carolina's 1st congressional district, along with 79 cosponsors following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, which at the time was the largest oil spill in U. S. history.

In 1999, the Exxon Valdez oil spill was listed as the 53rd largest spill in history.

He was outpointed twice, but Valdez scored a rare KO over Briscoe in an elimination match to determine the WBC middleweight champion on May 25, 1974-it was the only time in 96 fights that Briscoe was ever stopped.

At nearby Valdez, ( also in Alaska ), the U. S. Coast Guard ordered all tankers filling up with oil to head out to sea.

In 1899, the U. S. Army built a pack trail for summer use between the port of Valdez and Eagle, which passed through the Copper River Valley.

Nelchina is located at ( 61. 975035 ,-146. 825861 ). Nelchina appears on the Valdez D-8 on the U. S. Geological Survey Map. The elevation is 2, 402 feet.

In 1991, a U. S. House of Representatives committee investigated charges that a Wackenhut executive, working for a consortium of oil companies, illegally spied on a whistleblower, former independent oil executive Chuck Hamel, exposing environmental damage caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

The town had shanties on the fringes, but the center offered many of the economic conveniences of the rest of the U. S. Traffic came through the river, and an overland route to Valdez cut days off a trip to the contiguous United States.

He also developed the " open skies " policy of the United States that liberalized U. S. international policy and significantly increased the number of international flights to and from the U. S. In addition, Mr. Skinner acted as the President's point person in numerous crisis situations, including the Eastern Air Lines strike, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the northern California earthquake, Hurricane Hugo, and the 1991 national rail strike.

Egan's godfather, Anthony Dimond, a local Valdez lawyer, two-time mayor and member of the Alaska Senate, ran as a Democrat for the territory's nonvoting delegate to the federal U. S. House of Representatives the same year.

PFC Jose F. Valdez, Posthumous recognition | posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism while serving with the U. S. 7th Infantry on 25 January 1945.

He co-starred in Lawman ( 1971 ) and Valdez Is Coming ( 1971 ) with Burt Lancaster, and appeared opposite Robert Mitchum twice, in The Friends of Eddie Coyle ( 1973 ), as the informant-Coyle's handler, a pragmatic U. S. Treasury agent ; and in The Yakuza ( 1975 ) as the bodyguard of Mitchum's friend George Tanner.