Oil spill: California has flirted with this kind of large-scale disaster for decades
Before the oil spill, endangered western snowy plover had just started nesting and raising their young on Huntington Beach.
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Before the oil spill, endangered western snowy plover had just started nesting and raising their young on Huntington Beach.
Federal sources told The Times this week the displacement is best explained by a ship's anchor dragging across the ocean floor and hooking into the pipeline.
The Coast Guard is investigating whether an anchor might have snagged and bent the oil pipeline which has leaked more than 125,000 gallons of crude into the sea.
Oil helped build Southern California’s 20th-century economy. But in the 21st century, columnist George Skelton writes, offshore production is worth far less than its environmental cost.
California has done a poor job tackling heat waves, a public health crisis that is only getting worse with climate change.