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...another development yesterday, a state official said Exxon's decision to pull cleanup crews from an oil-stained beach caught authorities by surprise, but a spokesperson for the oil company defended the decision...
...company removed its workers Saturday from a pebblestrewn beach on the north edge of Smith Island, a site described only shortly before by the ranking federal official in charge of the cleanup as "far from clean." The site was one of those visited last week by Vice President Dan Quayle during his stopover in the state...
...people who were here last night from Exxon didn't know anything about this," Pete McGee, a scientist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said yesterday. Exxon, state and federal officials have been conducting nightly meetings on the progress of the cleanup...
Exxon helped fuel the anger last week, when the company's Alaska coordinator, Don Cornett, admitted that the oil company would add some of the cleanup costs to the price of its products. Said he: "If it gets to the consumer, that's where it gets. It's just like any other cost of doing business." Urging Exxon customers to respond by cutting up their charge cards, Ed Rothschild, spokesman for the Washington-based Citizen Energy/Labor Coalition, declared, "Consumers do not have to be added to the list of Exxon's victims...
...While cleanup crews and local fishermen fight to contain the largest oil spill in U.S. history, Exxon faces mounting outrage over its role in the tragic episode, while policymakers ponder how to make sure it can never happen again. -- Resentful of international pressure, Brazil unveils a plan to help save the Amazon. See ENVIRONMENT...