What we're still learning from the Exxon Valdez environmental debacle 3 decades later
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 07:50
in Earth & Climate
Before dawn on March 24, 1989, Dan Lawn stepped off of a small boat and onto the boarding ladder dangling from the side of the grounded Exxon Valdez oil tanker. As he made the crossover, he peered down into the water of Prince William Sound, and saw, in the glare of the lights, an ugly spectacle he would never forget.