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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...
Meanwhile, state attorneys general in the Northwest and U.S. Senators from Nebraska called for a federal investigation into the sharp gasoline price increase since the March 24 Exxon Valdez spill...
Exxon spokeswoman Sarah Johnson said 10,000 credit cards out of 7 million have been cut up and returned to the company since the spill. But the company said it had received no reports from dealers of losses in the volume of gasoline sold...
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...