ENERGY

Exxon Loses Appeal on Valdez Case: A federal judge in Anchorage has denied Exxon Corp.’s request for a new civil trial in the $5-billion Exxon Valdez oil spill case, rejecting all of the company’s complaints about the jurors. Exxon claimed jurors had talked about the trial outside the courtroom in 1994 before deciding the company should pay $5 billion in punitive damages to fishermen, Alaskan natives and others harmed by the spill. The jury blamed recklessness by Exxon for the 1989 tanker grounding, which dumped nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into pristine fishing waters from Prince William Sound to Kodiak Island. A spokesman for Texas-based Exxon declined to comment on Tuesday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland.