SAN DIEGO (KABC) -- One of the sea lions rescued from the oil spill at Refugio State Beach died Saturday after being sent to SeaWorld for treatment. The male sea lion arrived Thursday in critical ...

Monday marks 10 years since the Refugio oil spill off Santa Barbara County, considered one of the worst environmental disasters in California history, and now that same pipeline that burst could be ...

Nearly two months after the devastating Santa Barbara County oil spill that released 101,000 gallons of crude oil into a culvert, impacting ocean water and the shoreline, of which 21,000 gallons ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.-On a picture perfect Monday at Refugio State Beach some beachgoers said they still remember the Refugio Oil Spill like it was yesterday. "I remember coming out here and ...

An environmental cleanup crew removes oily sand at Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County in May 2015 after a massive spill from a ruptured pipeline. (Los Angeles Times) Nine years ago, when an ...

It has been ten years since the Refugio oil spill. On May 19, 2015, an underground oil pipeline near Refugio State Beach ruptured, spilling more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil, much of which ...

One year ago, a corroded pipe operated by Plains All-American burst. It released a river of crude into a creek that empties into the ocean at Refugio State Beach, a pristine coastline and popular ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A commercial fisherman sued the owner of the oil pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast, alleging the environmental disaster would cause ...

The maximum amount of crude oil that could have spilled into the ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach in Orange County so far is 126,000 gallons. That’s the estimate by local officials. A huge oil ...