Did the Santa Barbara oil spill save our beaches?
Did the Santa Barbara oil spill save our beaches?
On 28 January 1969, a blowout on a Union Oil platform six miles off the Santa Barbara coast released three million gallons of crude oil into the ocean. As the first environmental disaster captured in technicolor and publicized across national news media, the Santa Barbara oil spill played an important role in the emergence of the modern environmental movement. According to an oft-cited anecdote, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson was flying...
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