The captain at the helm of one of America's worst environmental disasters, which saw close to 11 million gallons of crude oil spill into pristine Alaskan waters and cost about $1.85 billion to clean up, has died at age 75.The name Joseph Hazelwood has become synonymous with the Alaskan oil spill, which coated 1,500 miles of the Gulf of coastline in March 1989, killing wildlife and destroying ecosystems.The news of Hazelwood's passing was first confirmed by a trade publication in July but was not picked up by national outlets for six weeks.
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