March 24th Will be the 20-Year Anniversary of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Victims of the Exxon Valdez. Photo: Wikipedia A Toxic Legacy: Don't Forget, We Need to Prevent the Next One Naomi Lubick of Nature has a great piece about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She looks back at what actually happened on March 24th, 1989, and then looks at the implications: Impact on ecosystems then and now, what was done to clean it, how long for oil to disappear, did anything good come out of this disaster, what about people living in Alaska?...