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  1. In this June 23, 1989 photo, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker is towed out of Prince William Sound in Alaska by a tug boat and a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter.
  2. In this April 11, 1989 picture, thick crude oil which washed up on the cobble stone beach of Evans Island sticks to the boots and pants of a local fisherman in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The March 24, 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker oil spill blackened hundreds of miles of coastline.
  3. In this photo released by Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia, Kerry Kennedy, center in white, daughter of former US Senator Robert F. Kennedy, looks on while a workers removes mud looking for oil traces during a one-day visit to Lago Agrio, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.
  4. In this March 26, 1989 picture, the Exxon Baton Rouge, left, attempts to off-load crude oil from the Exxon Valdez after the Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William sound, spilling about 11 million gallons of crude oil, causing widespread environmental damage.
  1. Crude oil from the tanker Exxon Valdez, top, swirls on the surface of Alaska's Prince William Sound near Naked Island on April 9, 1989, 16 days after the tanker ran aground, spilling about 11 million gallons of crude oil, causing widespread environmental damage.
  2. In this Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 picture, Nancy Bird shows oil-soaked soil collected in May 2007 from Smith Island in Prince William Sound, on display at the Prince William Sound Science Center in Cordova, Alaska.
  1. In this Feb. 7, 2008 picture, fisherman Steve Smith stands by his fishing boat in Cordova, Alaska talking about how the Exxon Valdez oil spill affected him.
  2. FILE - In this April 13, 1989 file photo, Bill Scheer, of Valdez, Alaska, is covered in crude oil while working on a beach fowled by the spill of the tanker Exxon Valdez at Prince William Sound.
  3. FILE - In this April 1989 file photo, an oil soaked bird is examined on an island in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
  1. In this April 9, 1989 file photo, crude oil from the tanker Exxon Valdez, top, swirls on the surface of Alaska's Prince William Sound near Naked Island.
  2. This Feb. 10, 2009 photo shows Rick Steiner at his office in Anchorage, Alaska.
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