Broken pipe in California spills oil into the sea

Oil slick hits the Californian coast. Image by Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP

This photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department shows an oil slick from a broken pipeline off the central California coast near Santa Barbara. Capt. Dave Zaniboni of the Santa Barbara County Fire Department says the pipeline on the land near Refugio State Beach broke on Tuesday and spilled oil into a culvert that ran under the U.S. 101 freeway and into the ocean.

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