Word: oiled
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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...
Dennis Kelso, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, told a congressional panel the spill has caused "550 miles of oil, filthy foam and tar balls...
...said that on the East Coast, it would be the equivalent of oil washing up on beaches from Boston south to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay and possibly to the Potomac River...
Both Harvard and Radcliffe are stockholders in Exxon--as of June 30, 1988, the oil company was Harvard's seventh largest holding at $25 million. Radcliffe also holds Exxon shares, with a market value totalling...
...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...