Southern California’s largest utility company is suing Santa Barbara County for failing to prepare for last winter’s deadly debris flows. Award-winning author George Saunders believes fiction can help bring the country back together. And it’s been 50 years since an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara spilled 3 million gallons of crude oil into the Pacific and brought the environmental movement to the nation’s consciousness.
50 years after a massive spill, Santa Barbara remains tied to oil
More than 3,600 seabirds died in the wake of the 1969 oil spill. Photo courtesy of Bud Bottoms
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