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25 Years After Exxon Valdez, The US Is Not Ready For The Next Big Spill
A quarter-century ago, after the Exxon Valdez’s captain downed one too many drinks and left a third mate in charge, the oil tanker struck a reef and bled 41,640 kilolitres of oil across 2092km of Alaska’s coastline. But the catastrophic oil spills have continued in the US — and it’s still not prepared to handle…