Government to seek $92 million dollars more for Exxon Valdez cleanup.

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This article is from the New York Times.

WASHINGTON, June 1 — When the Justice Department and the State of Alaska reached their $900 million court settlement with the Exxon Corporation over the environmental damages caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, they agreed that, if unforeseeable damages occurred later, the two governments had 15 years to ask for $100 million more.

On Thursday, with the deadline approaching, the governments exercised this clause. They announced in a statement that they would seek $92 million from Exxon Mobil to clean up stubborn patches of oil, whose most toxic components, they say, have not dissipated since the spill in 1989.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/us/02spill.html

Of course, the spill will never really be "cleaned up," but mostly the matter is forgotten.

The fact that the maximum allowable amount, $100 million, was not sought is a special consideration of the fact that the people who run Exxon are our special friends.