Hints and tips:
...Mr Merino announced his departure only minutes after Luis Valdez, the head of congress, said politicians of all parties had agreed to call for the president’s resignation to save lives and restore order....
...Other aspects of the industry have changed less since the Exxon Valdez....
...Martin Benitez Torres, 33 Torres, from San Juan, Puerto Rico. was in Orlando visiting family. In several videos posted on the day of the shooting, he talked about how beautiful the area was....
...Martin Preston, an expert on oil spills at Liverpool university, agrees that the environmental impact was greatly exaggerated....
...Unlike in the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, or other accidents involving tankers carrying known quantities of oil, there is great uncertainty over the volume that escaped from the Macondo well....
...“The idea that they could just take whatever remains in the fund and give it to the plaintiffs in the case is way off,” says Martin Davies, a professor at Tulane Law School....
...The gulf doesn’t have the decades it took to resolve the legal wrangling that followed the Exxon Valdez spill....
...The Exxon Valdez accident had a huge effect, but was only the 30th largest oil spill worldwide....
...Martin Preston, an expert in marine pollution from the University of Liverpool, said politicians felt pressure to act in ways that might not be approved by scientists....
...The question arose last month when Martin Feldman, a Louisiana federal judge, threw out a US government ban on offshore oil drilling....
...Sarah Holmes and her husband, Martin, a British couple teaching English in Bogotá, say they were drawn to the neighbourhood because of its relaxed, village feel....
...A Juan Valdez coffee house offers a welcome alternative to Starbucks. “Downtown was desolate, certainly after 5pm,” says Horsley....
...On March 24 1989, the Exxon Valdez tanker struck a reef and spilled 11m gallons into Alaska’s pristine Prince William Sound....
International Edition