18 years on, Exxon Valdez oil still pours into Alaskan waters

Crude oil is still polluting Alaskan waters almost 18 years after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, according to a study by US government scientists to be published in two weeks. The study, an advance of which was released on Wednesday, found more than 26,600 gallons of oil remaining at Prince William Sound. Researchers say it is declining at a rate of only 4% a year and even slower in the Gulf of Alaska.

The disclosure came as Exxon Mobil posted the largest annual profit by a US company, $39.5bn (£20bn).

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Ted Haggard Going Back To College

Makes me think of the Rodney Dangerfield movie:

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Ted Haggard, founder and former senior pastor of New Life Church, plans to leave Colorado Springs and move to Iowa or Missouri to return to college, according to a message he e-mailed Sunday to some church members.

Haggard’s family has been “offered two places” in the Midwestern states, Haggard wrote. He and his wife, Gayle, will go back to school together, but Haggard didn’t specify what college or university they would attend.

“We are both planning on getting our masters in Psychology so we can work together serving others the rest of our lives,” Haggard wrote.

The nationally known minister was dismissed from the pulpit in the wake of a sex and drug scandal that rocked the evangelical movement.

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