BREAKING NEWS - Survivors of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

BREAKING NEWS: Current Media Coverage

Below are links to current articles and radio stories on the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Exxon-Mobil merger. This page is updated as more news stories appear, so please check back often.

WFAA, ABC Dallas, 5/27/99
Valdez Victims Object to Exxon-Mobil Merger
Minnesota Star Tribune, 3/27/99
Adding insult to injury
Reuters, 3/26/99
Attorneys Demand Exxon Pay Damages
Anchorage Daily News, 3/26/99
Attorneys General ask Exxon to pay up for spill
Excite Washington News Summary, 3/25/99
37 Attorneys General tell Exxon to pay Valdez victims
Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, 3/24/99
Oil giant's disaster cover-ups exposed
Slick operator: Exxon's global cover-up exposed
Anchorage Daily News, 3/24/99
Exxon critics push for state to resist merger with Mobil
The Activists
Associated Press, 3/24/99
Environmental group urges halt to Exxon-Mobil merger
Christian Science Monitor, 3/23/90
The big spill
Anchorage Daily News, 3/23/99
Still painful: 10 years later, front-line spill workers
link physical ailments to cleanup work
CNN 3/22/99
Fishing village still recovering from Valdez impact
ABC News, 3/22/99
Video: Bill Blakemore reports on the Alaskans still
feeling the effects of the spill (requires RealPlayer)
USA Today Special Report: Ten Years After the Spill, 3/22/99
For many, optimism drowned in oil
$100 million riding on recovery
Ship captain resigned to image as villain
The end of an arctic paradise
Anchorage Daily News, 3/22/99
Years later spill's toll still rising
Oil critics demand safer tankers
Newsweek.com
Detroit Free Press, 3/21/99
Earth is poor due to our greed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3/19/99
Tom Carver reports for BBC News, 3/18/99
Video (requires RealPlayer)
Dallas Morning News, 3/14/99:
Crude reminders
Case out of control, some litigants say
Exxon finds slow pace of Valdez case profitable
National Public Radio All Things Considered, 3/11/99
National Public Radio Living on Earth, week of 3/11/99
An hour-long special on the tenth anniversary of the spill
Anchorage Daily News, cover story, 3/9/99
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial, 3/9/99
Exxon-Mobil merger should not go through until Exxon pays up
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, cover story, 3/9/99
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3/9/99
Salt Lake Tribune, AP story, 3/9/99
Philadelphia Star Enquirer, 3/7/99 (with Photo Gallery)
Minnesota Star Tribune, 3/7/99 (with Photo Gallery)
Boston Globe, 3/7/99, front page
National Public Radio Weekend Edition, 3/6/99
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3/6/99
USA Today, 3/4/99, Money Section cover story

Awards

This website was Cool Site of the Day (the original "Award" site on the Web) for 3/28/99. It was selected as a Yahoo daily pick on 3/5/99 and as the top USA Today Hot Site on 3/9/99. It was also a Startpoint Daily Pick (Greece, 3/5/99), a CHIP Newsroom Cool Site (Poland, 3/9/99), a winner of the Medaille D'Or for Web site excellence, a World Best Websites Merit Award winner, a WebbieWorld Hot Pick, and a Britannica (EBlast) Site of the Day (3/24/99). During March, ABCNews.com, MSNBC.com, CNN.com, and the Weather Channel included our site in their coverage of the anniversary of the spill, and Excite.com listed it in their guide to the best sites on the web.

Next: Exxon's March 5, 1999 statement, with our response.