
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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The Impact of the Oil Spill on Alaska
The original narrative of this was that the captain of the ship, Joseph Hazelwood, was drinking. He's from New York and he had his license suspended in New York a bunch of times for D.U.I.'s. And so they didn't really do anything about it. So like 1500 miles is like not that much of Alaska by any other scale. It's like profound impacts.
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