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20 years after Exxon Valdez, it's time for a clean energy economy

March 24, 2009

Posted by Kate Slusark in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans

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beaches, coasts, exxonvaldez, exxonvaldezanniversary, fishing, noaa, oceans, OCS, offshoredrilling, oil, oilpollutionact, oilspills, princewilliamsound, recreation, tourism

The images of oil-soaked birds and other animals were burned on my brain as a kid in 1989, when the Exxon Valdez spill happened in Alaska's Prince William Sound. Those desperate, tragic pictures made a big impression on me at...continued

At midnight: offshore oil rigs can go up, gas prices won't go down

September 30, 2008

Posted by Kate Slusark in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
beaches, exxonvaldez, gasprices, oceans, offshoredrilling, oil, oilspills

Like so many people - to me, there is no better place for a complete mental escape and recharge than the beach. There's just something incomparably relaxing about basking in the sun, sleeping in the sand, and bathing in the...continued

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Kate Slusark
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I lived in Maryland most of my life, but also spent a portion of my...
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