Environment & Animal Welfare
Workers examine the coastline in Long Beach for tarballs. The tarballs have also washed ashore in Oxnard, Malibu and the South Bay.
Crude oil from a pipeline rupture in Santa Barbara County last month floated down the coast to beaches in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, according to separate lab results released Monday by both state officials and the Texas pipeline company.
An initial analysis of the tar balls that washed ashore in the South Bay last month, coating the area's most popular beaches, links the oil to the Refugio pipeline spill near Santa Barbara.
A tar sample taken from Manhattan Beach last month has been traced for the first time to the Santa Barbara oil spill, a U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife official said Monday.
LOS ANGELES -- Tar from the Santa Barbara oil spill washed up at least as far away as a Los Angeles County beach last month, according to test results released Monday.
LOS ANGELES — Tar from the Santa Barbara oil spill washed up at least as far away as a Los Angeles County beach last month, according to test results released Monday.
VATICAN CITY, June 18, 2015 (ENS) – "The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all," declares Pope Francis in his first major teaching on the environment, an encyclical letter released today.
What do Pope Francis, the United States military and former Secretary of State George Shultz have in common? They all believe climate change is real, mostly caused by humans and responsible for the unprecedented destruction of our planet's precious ecosystems.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 22, 2015
CONTACT: Jack d'Annibale | 202-330-1613
WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, June 3rd, Congressman Ted W. Lieu will host a presentation of the acclaimed TV show Fortitude by Participant Media (creators of Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth) with an in-depth conversation between climate change leaders to follow.