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President Nixon presided over the first Earth Day, founded in large part as a reaction to a devastating oil spill off the coast of California.

The 2015 Refugio oil spill was caused by the rupture of a buried onshore pipeline.

Cormorant’s bill is held by rubber band during bath to remove oil after the Santa Barbara oil spill.

More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along Santa Barbara’s coastline served to galvanize the modern environmental movement and also helped to usher in one of the state’s strongest conservation laws: the California Coastal Act.

There were photos of a baby-faced Sanders on his first day on the job, fresh from stints working for the Peace Corps and for lawyers representing fishermen affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill.