IN THE WAKE OF THE EXXON VALDEZ - THE OIL POLLUTION ACT OF 1990 - AN ANALYSIS

For fourteen years the United States Congress has wrestled with the problem of unifying the ever-more complex system of United States laws bearing on cleaning up oil spills that occur in the United States of America and compensating parties for the damages they have suffered as a result of these spills. Prior to the EXXON VALDEZ incident, enactment of a comprehensive oil spill liability and compensation statute by the United States Congress was an unlikely development. Issues like federal pre-emption of the individual states' local oil pollution programs was an insurmountable obstacle to consensus legislation. The EXXON VALDEZ incident has changed all that.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Intl Tug Convention and Marine Salvage Symposium, 11th; 24-28 Sept 1990; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Procs. Publ by Thomas Reed Publications Ltd, 1991, p 5 [24 p, 2 tab]
• Authors:
  • Cohen, M
• Publication Date: 1991

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Legislation; Oil spills
• Subject Areas: Law; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00700759
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM