A huge oil spill was killing wildlife and threatening California’s beaches on Monday, in what officials said amounted to an “environmental catastrophe.”
Dead birds and fish had begun washing up on the shore as a 126,000-gallon slick of crude oil choked waters south of Los Angeles, after spewing from a pipeline connected to an offshore rig.
A 15-mile (24-kilometer) stretch of coastline was closed to the public and fishing was ordered halted as crews scrambled to clean up one of California’s biggest spills in decades.
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