The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastropheVultures' Picnic: Chapter 7

Days after the Exxon Valdez slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives. The true cause of the catastrophe? The breaking of promises made by the oil giant to the Natives and Congress, cynically and disastrously, in the fifteen years leading up to the spill. The full extent of the oil company’s culpability, and the subsequent coverup, is chronicled in Vultures’ Picnic, excerpted here... READ MORE