Strafford NewsLocal news for Strafford, VT continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.A legacy lurking beneath- July 9, 2008 Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court slashed a civil judgment of $5 billion originally awarded to Alaskan fishermen and other businesses that were harmed in one of the most notorious environmental disasters in American history. In March, 1989 the Exxon Valdez struck a reef off of Alaska spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound that washed up on hundreds of miles of coastline. The Court's decision limited punitive damages to the civil plaintiffs to $500...http://www.topix.net/city/strafford-vt/2008/07/a-legacy-lurking-beneath?fromrss=1 |