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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

20 Years After Exxon Valdez: CA Fishermen Worry About West Coast Salmon

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009   

As the Obama administration considers opening a new stretch of Alaskan coastline to offshore oil drilling, environmentalists are commemorating the anniversary of one of the country's greatest ecological disasters. 20 years ago today, the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound. Recalling that event, California environmentalists and fisherman are hoping history doesn’t repeat itself.

Commercial fisherman Bob Bonano travels from Northern California to Bristol Bay every season. He says, even exploring for oil could cause a spill and he doesn’t think the risk justifies the rewards.

"It sounds like a lot of oil, but in reality it’s only two days' worth of our consumption nationally."

West Coast fisheries have seen a 90-percent drop in salmon populations since 2004. With California’s salmon season in danger once again, adds Bonano, Alaska really is the last stronghold for sustainable salmon harvest.

"Alaska has been really good in regulating the fishery up there; that’s why we have such large returns. Alaska basically is the last place right now that we can get the salmon."

Plans to develop oil and gas resources in Bristol Bay and elsewhere are under review by President Obama’s interior secretary, Ken Salazar, who promises a full review by the end of the year.




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