Saturday, July 3, 2010

The Lesson of Exxon Valdez: Death from the Gulf?

by XOVER

Campbell Brown of CNN recently reported that the vast majority of people that worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead.  The average life-span of an Exxon Valdez worker has turned out to be 51 years old.

Amazing.  

It doesn't take much to imagine what Exxon Valdez portends for cleanup workers in the Gulf of Mexico.

Campbell Brown's CNN clip is below the fold.



continued at Daily Kos....