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The day's environmental coverage on CBS was filed by Byron Pitts, who traced the 20 years since ExxonMobil's official spokesman pledged to make the fishermen of Valdez Alaska "whole" following its supertanker's devastating oil spill. The lawsuit against the oil conglomerate for punitive damages is still unresolved, Pitts reported: "At least 6,000 of the original plaintiffs have died and 8,000 have liens on their settlements." The United States Supreme Court has ruled that $507m in damages are due but an appeals court has still to decide whether ExxonMobil has to pay interest on that amount because of the delay. Sen Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) had this to say on behalf of her constituents: "I think that has been Exxon's strategy every step of the way, to wear everybody down. They have succeeded in fatiguing those who were entitled to this compensation."
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