‘Catastrophic’ California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands
Gene Blevins and Jonathan Allen
Huntington Beach, California | A large oil spill off the southern California coast has left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe.
The US Coast Guard, heading a clean-up response involving federal, state and city agencies, on Sunday (Monday AEDT) announced an around-the-clock investigation into how the spill occurred.
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