Sixteen years after the Exxon Valdez spills millions of gallons of crude into Alaskan waters, a Seattle reporter gets a tip from a whistleblower. Despite reforms and safety regulations put in place since the spill, was another major accident waiting to happen?
In the fall of 2004, a spill of hundreds of gallons of thick crude oil in Puget Sound led a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to look into the safety of oil tankers in the Pacific Northwest. Aided by an initially reluctant whistleblower, journalist Eric Nalder made some very unsettling discoveries – and revealed how oil tankers are not as safe as they might seem.
Follow an investigative voyage: Big oil. Big tankers. Big trouble. (Updated Program)
Funders for Exposé: America's Investigative Reports include: Anderson Family Charitable Fund, The Jacob Burns Foundation, The Betsy & Jesse Fink Foundation, Philip Harper, Park Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bernard & Irene Schwartz, and Tracy & Eric Semler.
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