Learning the Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

The 2009-10 Critical Issues in American topic is “Forty Years after the Big Spill – Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges
in a Global Context.” Led by Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies
William Freudenberg and supported by Water Policy Program Director Robert
Wilkinson, the program references an historical benchmark – for the campus
as well as the nation – and addresses a breadth of environmental challenges
for the 21st century with a strong, interdisciplinary group of core faculty
and key collaborators.

Riki Ott is the author of:
Not One Drop – Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
This book illustrates in stirring fashion the oil industry’s 20-year trail of pollution and deception that lead to the tragic 1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community for the next 10 years.

Sound Truth & Corporate Myth$ – The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
This book exposes oil as a human and environmental health hazard, based on stories of key witnesses and participants in the environmental tragedy that struck Prince William Sound in 1989. 2005 finalist for the Benjamin Franklin Book Award in Science and Environment.

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