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1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait 1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill 1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill 1990 Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill 1989 Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska 1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill 1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill 1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium |
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