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Guardian: Mark Massara was eight years old in 1969, when a blowout at a Union Oil well off the California coast spilled more than three million gallons of crude along the beaches of Santa Barbara and devastated one of the northern hemisphere’s most prized ecosystems.
He remembers going to the beach with his family and throwing hay on the oil as it washed ashore – a frustratingly inadequate gesture that stayed with him as he later built a career as one of California’s top environmental lawyers.
Last week,......
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California oil spill despoils coastline in tar-blackened reprise of 1960s disaster
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2015
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