Oil Spills
Beaches in Huntington Beach will reopen after water quality tests revealed no detectable levels of oil-associated toxins in the ocean water.
At least 126,000 gallons of crude spilled into the waters off Orange County a week ago.
"We need to grow up, grow out of this dependency, this mindset that we can’t do more," Democrat Gavin Newsom said.
The pipeline’s owner alerted authorities about the oil spill off Huntington Beach Saturday. The first reports of a sheen and foul smell were called in Friday.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The oil created a miles-wide sheen in the ocean and washed ashore in sticky, black globules along with dead birds and fish.
An offshore oil spill deposited tons of tar across Israel's coastline in what officials are calling one of the country’s worst ecological disasters.
The massive march was sparked by outrage over the government's slow response to the island nation's worst environmental disaster in years.
Thousands of civilian volunteers have worked for days to try to minimize damage to protected marine wetlands polluted by the spilled fuel.
Locals are donning hazmat suits and trying to clean up the oil spill after the MV Wakashio struck a coral reef and ran aground.
An estimated 1 ton of oil has already escaped into the Indian Ocean after a Japanese ship ran aground off the island's southeast coast.