Texas oil company charged in massive spill off southern California coast
by Gabrielle Canon and agencies from Environment | The Guardian on (#5T42C)
Prosecutors say company repeatedly failed to act on alarms that alerted workers to pipeline rupture
A Houston-based oil company and two subsidiaries have been charged over a massive oil spill off the coast of southern California in October that fouled waters and beaches and endangered wildlife.
Prosecutors say the spill was caused in part by failing to properly act when alarms repeatedly alerted workers to a pipeline rupture.
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