Critics say oil companies have been slow in converting their fleets to double-hull tankers by 2015, as required under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.

CNN: Exxon Valdez

Spills from oil tankers continued their precipitous decline due in part to the double-hull requirement instituted after the Valdez spill.

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