Prestige oil spill causing great harm to the local fishing industry. The spill is the largest environmental disaster in the history of both Spain and Portugal. The amount of oil spilled was more than the "Exxon Valdez" incident and the toxicity considered higher, because of the higher water temperatures. In 2007 the Southern District of New York dismissed a 2003 lawsuit by the Kingdom of Spain against the American Bureau of Shipping, the international classification society which had certified the "Prestige" as in compliance with rules and laws, because ABS was a "person" per the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution
Baldwin Harbor, New York Baldwin Harbor, New York Baldwin Harbor is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. It was created concomitant with the 1990 United States Census from the southernmost portions of the neighboring hamlet of Baldwin. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 8,102. Baldwin Harbor is located at (40.633923, -73.603779). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and (28.24%) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 8,102 people, 2,687 households, and 2,185 families