Changed Quote by Sylvia Earle

“You’ve heard of the famous Exxon Valdez tanker spill, where a tanker ran into the rocks in Alaska. Thirty million gallons of crude oil…

— John Grisham

Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez…

— Jeremy Clarkson

Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted…

— George William Norris

“Martin Trebeaux had purchased a fleet of marine barges using the proceeds from a poshly falsified BP oil-spill claim.”

— Carl Hiaasen

The BP oil spill nearly crippled our state and did damage to our coast and communities that will take years to rectify.

— John Bel Edwards

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that…

— Josh Fox

Exxon fought claims resulting from the Exxon Valdez spill in court for 20 years. Alabama could have suffered the same fate. What would be…

— Luther Strange

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

— Ralph Nader

“Each year, a shipping publicist told me, 'More oil is poured down the drain by mechanics changing their engine oil than is spilled by…

— Rose George

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers…

— Jack Adams

What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was…

— Lisa Murkowski

“U-boat commanders called this their `Happy Time'. Between January and July 1942 they sank 495 merchant ships and 142 tankers, a total of 2,500,000…

— Derek Robinson