California’s recent oil spill off Huntington Beach has led to a renewal of calls to ban offshore drilling. But the transition away from oil production won’t be easy for an industry that employs more than 150,000 people and generates significant revenue.
Oil spilling into federal waters off California's coast has prompted fresh calls for an end to offshore oil drilling in state and federal waters. But that's easier said than done.
California has been a leader in restricting offshore oil drilling since the infamous 1969 Santa Barbara spill that sparked the modern environmental movement, and the latest spill off Huntington Beach is prompting fresh calls for an end to such drilli
LONG BEACH, Calif. Some of the crude oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents, a Coast Guard official said Wednesday as authorities sought to determine the scope of the damage.