The other surrounds Vermont's Matthew Valentine, who rose to a kind of prominence as Tower Recordings, and more recently plays as MV & EE with his partner Erika Elder. Of course, there is plenty ...

The spill was particularly deadly to the local bird population. December 12, 1999 - The oil tanker MV Erika sinks off the coast of France after a heavy storm. The tanker released thousands of ...

In the wake of the Erika disaster in 1999 -- when an oil tanker of that name broke apart off the western coast of France -- the European Union tightened its laws on maritime safety. The Erika ...