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Consumers, environmentalists and politicians in scattered cities yesterday joined a one-day "Boycott Exxon" campaign protesting the company's huge oil spill in Alaska and the overall rise in gasoline prices...
...your administration was slow in responding to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. When Exxon failed to fulfill its responsibility to clean up the mess, the federal government could have acted to avoid irrevocable damage...
...didn't the Secretary of the Interior go to Alaska soon after the spill to see the scope of the disaster with his own eyes? Three weeks before the spill, an Environmental Protection Agency report criticized oil companies' "careless management of chemical and oil wastes on Alaska's North Slope." The lack of a coherent plan to deal with such crises has given new meaning to the phrase, "from sea to shining...
Recently, student activists have demanded thatformal action be taken on the report this spring,but faculty members said discussion of therecommendations may spill over into facultymeetings early next fall...
Opponents of the joint project fear it will endanger American dominance of the aerospace industry. -- Exxon faces lawsuits and consumer wrath for its role in the Alaskan oil spill...