Exxon Valdez, other spills taught Alaskans to be ready
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DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska - In the first few days after 1989&#39;s Exxon Valdez disaster, fishermen were forced to fell trees and drop them across favored spawning streams to halt the spread of oil.
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An unforgiving Bering Sea thwarted efforts Friday to stem a major spill from a broken freighter, but pollution responders said they managed to begin setting up initial
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U.S. energy companies that operate  in the Gulf of Mexico are better prepared to keep petroleum and  natural gas supplies flowing if hurricanes hit this year than  they were during 2005&#39;s disastrous season, U.S. government and  industry officials said Wednesday.
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The U.S. Congress comes back to town   next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch   disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the   giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - U.S. and Alaskan authorities   on Thursday demanded $92.2 million from Exxon Mobil XOM.N for   environmental damages linked to the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on Alaska's North Slope.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A salvage team has reached a wrecked freighter in the Bering Sea off Alaska&#39;s coast. For days, the Coast Guard has been trying to get people on the ship, which has broken in two and is oozing oil, diesel fuel and soybeans.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better
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Description: A freighter carrying more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil breaks up near a national wildlife refuge on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
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Exxon said it was reviewing its legal options in the wake of AlaskaÂs decision to strip it of leases to an oil and gas field.
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U.S. and Alaskan authorities  on Thursday demanded $92.2 million from Exxon Mobil for  environmental damages linked to the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident.
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By Bill White / Bwhite@adn.Com And Don Hunter / Dhunter@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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To extract oil from the Jack field, a rig will have to negotiate freezing waters, boiling oil and seismic uncertainty. Hereâs how.
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Citing a need for domestic energy, the government plans to open for exploratory drilling thousands of acres on Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades because of migratory birds and caribou.