Tag: Oil Spill

Southern California Fisheries Reopen After Offshore Oil Spill

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) reopened all bays and harbors from Seal Beach to San Onofre Beach on Tuesday, Nov. 30, after nearly two months of closures due to an offshore oil spill. “I am relieved to see that our fisheries will finally be able to reopen,” Orange County Supervisor…


Investigators ID Ship “Beijing” Possibly Linked to California Oil Spill

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—A cargo ship named “Beijing” was identified Nov. 19 as a vessel involved in an “anchor-dragging incident” in January that may have contributed to the October oil leak off the coast of Huntington Beach, according to U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board investigators. Investigators boarded the vessel Thursday at the Port…


Orange County Supervisors Continue Local Emergency Amid Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts

Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Oct. 19 a continuation of the local emergency regarding the recent oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach, California. The response to the coastal oil spill in Orange and San Diego County proceeds as the amount of estimated oil leakage dropped from 127,000 gallons to around 25,000…


Elected Officials, Environmental Activists Advocate a Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling

Elected officials, environmental advocates, and actress Jane Fonda gathered in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 18 in a joint effort to support state Sen. Dave Min’s (D-Irvine) promise to ban all offshore oil drilling off the coast of California following the recent oil spill near Huntington Beach. After the oil spill off the coast of…


Elected Officials, Environmental Activists Advocate for a Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling

Elected officials, environmental advocates, and actress Jane Fonda gathered in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 18 in a joint effort to support state Sen. Dave Min’s (D-Irvine) promise to ban all offshore oil drilling off the coast of California following the recent oil spill near Huntington Beach. After the oil spill off the coast of…


Orange County Beaches Gradually Reopen After Oil Spill

Orange County beaches are slowly reopening after water quality tests following the offshore oil spill show undetectable amounts of toxins. Newport Beach announced all city beaches were reopened Oct. 11 at 2 p.m. after over a week of closure as water quality results proved it safe for residents to return. “The city will continue monitoring…


California Attorney General Launches Probe Into Oil Spill ‘Disaster’

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday that the state’s Justice Department has launched an investigation into the major oil spill off the coast of Orange County’s Huntington Beach. The offshore oil spill leaked up to 132,000 gallons of crude oil from an undersea pipeline, killing dozens of animals and threatening coastal wetlands and…


Huntington Beach City, State Beaches to Reopen Monday

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—The city of Huntington Beach and California State Parks announced Oct. 10 that they would reopen city and state beaches the next morning. The joint decision to reopen the beaches at 6 a.m. Monday comes after water-quality testing results showed non-detectable amounts of oil associated toxins in ocean water, Huntington Beach police spokeswoman…


Southern California’s Oil Pipeline Likely Struck by Anchor Several Months Before Leak

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—The underwater pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of oil off the coast of Huntington Beach may have been ruptured as long as a year ago and multiple ship anchors may have struck the line over that time, a U.S. Coast Guard official said Oct. 8. Capt. Jason Neubauer said the crack in…


Anchor Strike May Have Been Several Months Before California Oil Spill

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—The underwater pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of oil off the coast of Huntington Beach may have been ruptured as long as a year ago and multiple ship anchors may have struck the line over that time, a U.S. Coast Guard official said Oct. 8. Capt. Jason Neubauer, the Coast Guard’s lead investigator,…