Oil heavily coated a stretch of the Gaviota coast and forced the closure of Refugio and El Capitan state beaches. El Capitan reopened in June. Small tar balls from the spill made their way as far ...

The media event mimicked the dozen or so held the week after the May 19 Refugio Oil Spill — a handful of agencies representatives made brief statements to reporters before fielding questions. But 37 ...

Oil from an onshore leak spills down the cliff and into the ocean north of Refugio Beach (May 19, 2015) Health officials ordered Refugio State Beach closed and its campers relocated just as ...

Oil flows toward the ocean from an inland oil spill near Refugio State Beach on May 20, 2015. (Credit: David McNew/Getty Images) “California’s coastline is one of the state’s most precious ...

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The pipeline has been inactive since it ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015. Earlier this month, on the spill’s 10th anniversary, the company that owns the pipeline and an offshore drilling ...

Environmental activists gathered to condemn Tuesday’s oil spill near Refugio State Beach that leaked crude oil from a Plains All American Pipeline pipe into the Santa Barbara Channel ...

(Eric Laughlin / California Department of Fish & Wildlife photo) The initial Refugio oil spill cleanup efforts are nearly finished, according to the multiagency unified command handling the response.

Monday marks 10 years since the Refugio oil spill off Santa Barbara County, considered one of the worst environmental disasters in California history, and now that same pipeline that burst could ...

Our water, air and climate will never be safe until we end fossil fuel development altogether. The Refugio oil spill recalls the tragic 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill that angered the nation and helped ...