Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oil 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...
Crews remained on the island, but at another oil-fouled landfall nearby, Exxon said. The island is considered crucial to the annual seal pupping cycle...
...Ewing, an assistant regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said he was on the north beach Saturday morning and found it still "very difficult to walk on" because of the oil...
Exxon faces a Wednesday deadline to have the worst of the oil cleansed from several islands in Prince William Sound, and has promised to clean some 364 miles of coastline by Sept...
...tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in the sound on March 24 after filling its storage tanks with crude from the trans-Alaska pipeline. More than 10 million gallons of oil poured into the sound...