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1. Disaster in the Gulf: How do marshes and beaches recover from oil spills?
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... intervention? Burger: Recovery from small, isolated spills can take years or decades. Recovery from widespread oil spills, like Deepwater Horizon, can take decades to centuries. Oil from the Exxon Valdez ...

2. Gulf oil spill couldn’t have come at a better time for those against offshore drilling
(U.S./Nation)

... worst environmental and economic disaster since the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled millions of gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. As people scramble to stem the oily tide on ...

3. Holt, Pallone introduce ‘Big Oil bailout prevention act’ to protect taxpayers
(U.S./Nation)

... in the interests of making BP and others pay their fair share." In 1990, in response to the Exxon Valdez spill, Congress and the President enacted the Oil Pollution Act. The liability cap was set at ...

4. Colombian drug kingpin Alejandro Cleves pleads guilty in N.J.
(N.J./State)

... initially focused on Wilson Valdez of Elizabeth, who was a major heroin and cocaine trafficker in the State. What started as a wiretap of two telephones grew to 54 telephones, and detectives learned that ...

5. Rutgers disaster expert Lee Clarke says BP “overpromised,” which led to Gulf oil spill
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to sign off on it. People weren't paying attention." The 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, which dumped an estimated 10.8 million gallons oil into the ocean off the coast of Alaska, led to the Oil Pollution Act ...

6. Environment New Jersey outraged over Obama’s offshore drilling announcement
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... rig off the Australian coast spilled an estimated 9 million gallons of oil, nearly the size of the Exxon Valdez spill; The new proposal jeopardizes beaches on much of the East Coast including the Chesapeake ...

7. New Jersey’s environmentalists form alliance to oppose planned mega coal plant in Linden
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Wetlands Association. "This is a recipe for another Exxon-Valdez toxic catastrophe." "The worst polluters continue to put Linden in their cross-hairs but this time the stakes are even higher,'' said ...

8. New Jersey indicts 35 inmates for possession of cell phones
(N.J./State)

... 49, Wilson Valdez, 29, Brian Williams, 31, Raheem Pratt, 28, Calvin Alexander, 44, Brad Smith, 35, Michael Fields, 35, Derrell Riddick, 30, Cagliano Ulysses, 26, Jose Camacho, 27, Eric Fyshe, 24, Carmelo ...

9. Dominican-American Organization endorses Corzine for re-election
(N.J./State)

... the organization's president. "He made history with his appointment of the first Dominican-American prosecutor of Passaic County and in the nation, Camelia Valdez. We believe in his leadership and urge ...

10. Columbian drug kingpin arraigned in Union County
(N.J./State)

... Wilson Valdez of Elizabeth, who was a major heroin and cocaine trafficker in the State. What started as a wiretap of two telephones grew to 54 telephones, and detectives learned that Wilson Valdez was ...

11. 104 newest New Jersey state troopers graduate academy
(N.J./State)

... Tapia. Jersey City Euriel Thwaites, Willingboro Dansel Valdez, Clifton Steven Vallejo, West New York Anthony Valvano, Rockaway Vinicius Vicente, Maplewood Donald Walls, Sicklerville Joseph ...