PHOTOS: 25 Years Later, A Heartbreaking Look Back At Exxon’s Alaska Oil Spill

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/24/3418287/exxon-valdez-25-years-later/
"It has been 25 years since that tragedy, and though the oil has largely disappeared from immediate sight, effects from Exxon Valdez linger. The government is still fighting in court for more compensation from the company that scarred a coastal ecosystem. Beaches are still drenched in subsurface oil, and mussels still hold traces of it in their shells. An industry — fishing — has still not recovered. Lives lost, human and animal alike, have not been returned."