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...world's most notorious oil tanker will have a new name when she returns to service in August, and she will not be going back to Valdez, Alaska, where her grounding in March 1989 caused the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Instead, the Exxon Mediterranean, nee Exxon Valdez, will be hauling crude oil from Turkey and Egypt to France and Italy. The tanker will have a new $30 million bottom and a new American crew...
Between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mobile, one of the world's most extensive petrochemical complexes attracts the heaviest concentration of oil-tanker traffic off any U.S. coast. The Exxon Valdez disaster, which dumped 11 million gal. of crude oil into Alaskan waters in March 1989 should have jolted the U.S. -- and the Gulf States in particular -- into preparations for coping with such devastating spills. Just how dismally they have failed was demonstrated last week when fires and explosions wracked the 886-ft. Mega Borg for seven days, 60 miles off Galveston. For a time the convulsions threatened to disgorge...
...spills. The legislation would also require tanker owners to plan for a worst possible spill. The Coast Guard would no longer simply stand by but take immediate charge of all serious tanker accidents in U.S. waters. New tankers would have to have double hulls (the Coast Guard estimates the Valdez would have lost 60% less oil if it had been constructed this way). But a conference committee working out differences in the House and Senate versions of the law has met only once...
...main obstacle concerns limits on the liability of tanker owners. The shippers want the U.S. to approve international standards adopted since 1984 by most European nations. These protocols would cap a company's cleanup costs at $78 million (Exxon says it has already spent $2 billion on its Valdez fiasco) and prevent nations from imposing more; yet the congressional bills would set higher liability limits in the U.S. and let the states go beyond the federal standards, as Alaska currently does. Says Alaska Governor Steve Cowper about the impact of the international rules: "The spiller gets off easy, the lawyers...
...members (please, not subscribers). To attract younger readers, Garrett, 59, wanted National Geographic to embrace the news and shed its reputation as a moss-backed wishbook where adolescent boys once made the acquaintance of bare-breasted women. A photographer and journalist himself, Garrett began publishing stories about the Exxon Valdez, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the effects of acid rain, and life in East Harlem. Despite his innovations, circulation remained flat during Garrett's tenure, after having almost doubled during the previous ten years...