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...VALDEZ, Alaska--Alaska's top environmental official testified yesterday that a "reluctant and myopic" Exxon stalled efforts to clean up the nation's largest oil spill by largely ignoring damage outside the immediate spill zone...
Consumers, environmentalists and politicians in scattered cities yesterday joined a one-day "Boycott Exxon" campaign protesting the company's huge oil spill in Alaska and the overall rise in gasoline prices...
Twenty state legislators from Oregon and 16 from California backed the boycott. Consumer groups in Alaska and New York state also asked consumers to join...
...didn't the Secretary of the Interior go to Alaska soon after the spill to see the scope of the disaster with his own eyes? Three weeks before the spill, an Environmental Protection Agency report criticized oil companies' "careless management of chemical and oil wastes on Alaska's North Slope." The lack of a coherent plan to deal with such crises has given new meaning to the phrase, "from sea to shining...
...President, you promised us a clean administration--clean planet, clean schools, clean government. After 100 days, what do we have? An oil slick in Alaska, blood-stained streets in Anacostia and mud-spattered reputations in the government, your government...