Word: exxon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Since the Exxon Valdez accident, gas prices have increased by an average of 10 percent nationally, while the Pacific Northwest saw surges as high as 25 percent in less than a month, said Marla Rae, executive assistant to Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer...
Consumer activist Ralph Nader said in Washington that Exxon "should not be allowed to forget" the Alaskan spill and that a boycott was the way to send a message to the oil giant...
Nader joined representatives from several environmental and consumer groups in accusing Exxon of failing to be prepared for the spill and not rapidly responding to the accident...
...Exxon issued a statement calling the boycott unjust, and added: "Exxon believes in the basic fairness of the American people and is confident that they will see Exxon's employees, dealers and owners as victims of human error, not as an institution that should be discriminated against for an accident that occurred while we were doing...