{"id":7,"date":"2020-10-20T17:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2020-12-21T17:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:54:31","slug":"course-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/","title":{"rendered":"Exxon Valdez: A Preventable Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of the March 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 1989, the Exxon Valdez, a 300 meter-long, oil tanker owned by Exxon, struck Blight Reef in Alaska\u2019s Prince William Sound, rupturing eight of its eleven cargo tanks and spewing some 11 million gallons of crude oil. At the time, the Exxon Valdez was the worst oil spill in U.S. history. While the oil spill did not directly take any human live, it caused great harm to both humans and nature. As a result of the spill, hundreds of birds, otters, seals, fish and other marine animals that inhabited the area died. Furthermore, the oil spill, which spread over 1,300 miles, uprooted many of the coastal communities in the Southern Alaskan Gulf\u2013\u2013communities whose livelihoods were closely intertwined with the renewable resources of the land that the spill destroyed. For many Americans, the Exxon Valdez disaster incited anger over the loss of the pristine Alaskan wilderness and lead to increased calls for oil pollution regulations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-148 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/451\/2020\/12\/11-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/451\/2020\/12\/11-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/451\/2020\/12\/11.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 85vw, 204px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Bridgman, Information Officer for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, discovers subsurface oil from seemingly clean beach, Meares Point, Perry Island (AOSC, photo gallery).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/451\/2020\/12\/07-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/451\/2020\/12\/07-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/451\/2020\/12\/07.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 85vw, 408px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial of a maxi-barge with water tanks and spill workers hosing a beach, Prince William Sound (AOSC, photo gallery).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the early hours of the March 24th, 1989, the Exxon Valdez, a 300 meter-long, oil tanker owned by Exxon, struck Blight Reef in Alaska\u2019s Prince William Sound, rupturing eight of its eleven cargo tanks and spewing some 11 million gallons of crude oil. At the time, the Exxon Valdez was the worst oil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exxon Valdez: A Preventable Disaster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-abaselga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}