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...spill, just 35 miles from Long Beach, guaranteed that the environment would be the overriding issue in the campaign to lead the nation's biggest state. Wherever they went as they began stumping in earnest last week, Van de Kamp, Feinstein and Wilson made California reverberate to a can-you-top-this of environmental concern. Debate about conservation vs. development is not exactly new in a state that has long sought to reconcile its feverish growth with the desire for a healthy, outdoor way of life. In a classic, cyclical conflict between the "smokestack" of job-creating development...
...accident gave new impetus to local efforts to require double hulls on all new tankers. But unlike Exxon, whose response to last year's catastrophic oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound was too little and too late, British Petroleum, the company leasing the tanker, lost no time in launching a cleanup. "Their response has been without equal," said a Coast Guard spokesman. "The people and the equipment were ready...
...were warned of the possibility of a rupture but did not act. The pipeline, which connects an Exxon refinery with storage tanks, had a leak-detection system in place that flashed an alarm when the accident occurred. But instead of shutting down the pipeline, which would have kept the spill to a minuscule amount, employees failed to take the alarm seriously for nearly six hours. Reason: the safety system was known to be defective and had frequently sent out false alarms...
Authorities in New Jersey have filed a lawsuit against Exxon, and New York officials threatened to do so but held off when the oil company agreed to assume some liability for the spill. Both states want the oil giant to pay compensation for damage to the environment and reimbursement for the governments' cost of helping in the cleanup. Exxon's environmental bills are mounting. The company has spent more than $1 billion in its efforts to clean up the Valdez spill, and is being sued for billions of dollars more by the state of Alaska, the fishing industry and other...
...Federated Department Stores in the 1980s takeover wars. But his domain totters on bankruptcy, and Campeau has been relieved of command. -- Art Buchwald wins a court claim that he provided the idea for the blockbuster Coming to America, but how much will he be paid? -- After an oil spill in New York and New Jersey, Exxon faces more flak...