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The Orange County oil spill on October 1, 2021, is an oil spill that deposited crude oil onto popular Southern California beaches on the West Coast of the United States. While residents reported smelling fumes, a ship noticed an oil slick that evening and reported it to federal authorities. When oil from an underwater pipeline in the waters of ...
In January and February 1969, in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara, in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills. It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California.
Spillcam. Spillcam was a live feed of the leak site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The live footage first became available to the general public on May 12 when BP was pressured by politicians to release the footage.
An oil spill appeared off the Southern California coast Thursday night, near one of the region's most popular beaches, authorities said.. The slick sheen was spotted about 1 1/2 miles off ...
Companies linked to two cargo ships accused of damaging an oil pipeline months before it ruptured off the Southern California coast have agreed to pay $45 million to settle lawsuits.
133 sq mi (340 km 2) Dominguez Channel ( Spanish: Canal de DomÃnguez) [1] is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) [2] river in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles (340 km 2 ). [3] The watershed area is 96 percent developed and largely residential. Subsurface storm drain tributaries and ...
For the record: 11:46 a.m. Jan. 21, 2024: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that the spill took place at a Valero refinery.It occurred at the Warren Resources facility on ...
At the time, the Santa Barbara spill was the largest oil spill ever in U.S. waters, and its occurrence during a fierce battle between local residents and the very oil company responsible for the spill only made the controversy more intense, the battle more public, and the anti-oil cause seem more valid to a wider segment of the populace.