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Twenty years since the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground on the night of Mar. 24, 1989 - spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil, which would coat 1,300 miles of coastline - Alaska's Prince William Sound is still feeling the effects. Despite the extensive, years-long clean-up effort, oil can still be found in spots on the Alaskan coast, especially under the surface. (See pictures of the Exxon Valdez disaster...
...nearly $300 million. "On the surface, Prince William Sound looks like it has regained its majesty," says Keith Colburn, an Alaskan fisherman and one of the stars of the reality TV series The Deadliest Catch. "But below the surface it's completely different." (Listen to Colburn talk about the Exxon Valdez anniversary on this week's Greencast...
TIME Warner (TWX) may not be planning to buy CBS (CBS), although it would make some sense. If a deal like that was on TIME Warner's mind, CBS has gotten 29% more expensive in the last five days. If Exxon Mobil (XOM) wants to buy Chevron (CVX), the price is up 9% in five days...
...Administration would do everything that they can to give oil companies permits for off-shore drilling in areas which have recently been approved for this purpose, it would certainly add billions of dollars in additional money to the annual amounts that the Interior Department sends to the Treasury. Exxon Mobil says that if drilling can begin in all of these areas, it would create 76,000 jobs...
...retail world has historically been one owned by men, designed by men, and managed by men. Yet, we expect women to shop in these stores. If women are the engines of consumption here, the purchasing agents for the family, whether I'm hardware score, whether I'm an Exxon station, being female friendly is important...