Michael Ziccardi, director of California's Oiled Wildlife Care Network, said the organization has collected 13 live birds and two dead birds affected by the oil.... The letter, addressed by the associate administrator for pipeline safety, said the oil platform's control room received low-pressure alarms on the San Pedro Bay Pipeline around 2: 30 a.m. PDT Saturday, indicating a possible failure.... Robert Hanashiro/ USA Today Network A cleanup crew walk along Huntington Beach looking for spots

Dana Point Harbor, about 30 miles south of Huntington Beach, became the latest location to close on Tuesday morning.... Mike Blake/ Reuters Workers seal off the entrance to Newport Beach harbor as a major oil spill off the coast of California travels south in ocean currents, towards Newport Beach, Calif., Oct.... The pipeline was likely leaking before the damage was discovered Saturday morning, Orange County supervisor Katrina Foley stated over the weekend....

Open this photo in gallery Oil washed up on a beach in Newport Beach, Calif., on Oct.... They will inspect anchors for damage and review all logs kept by the captain, deck officers and engineers, and the voyage data recorder – the equivalent of the so-called black box on airplanes.... They will also interview crew. Under some environmental laws, prosecutors only have to show negligence to win a conviction, Virginkar said....

“ At its widest point, it is 105 feet away from where it was.” Huge cargo ships regularly cross above the pipeline as they head into the massive Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.... An oil slick lines the beach as a man walks by, taking in the scene of a major oil spill washing ashore at Huntington State Beach in Huntington Beach, California on Sunday, Oct.... It then washed onto miles of beaches and a protected marshland. The beaches could remain closed for weeks or longer, a major hit to

Shore birds and marine creatures killed by the scores, perhaps hundreds, perhaps thousands.... But they also describe the consequences of the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, and the Refugio oil spill of 2015.... No doubt we’ll be reading the same, pegged to the latest spill, in 2026, and 2031, and 2071....

“ An opening of this type, on a 17-mile-long( 27-kilometer) underwater pipe is very hard to spot by remote indications.... But it also told federal investigators the total amountmay only be 29, 400 gallons( 111, 300 liters). Officials said Wednesday they were investigating whether a ship waiting to offload its cargo might have had something to do with the leak.... The Rotterdam was the ship anchored closest to the pipeline last week. Hapag-Lloyd, the shipping company that operates the vessel,

The Coast Guard said it was too dark to go out and search for the spill by the time they received a report about it.... 2 alerted controllers about a possible spill.... Fishing in the affected area resumed only recently, after testing confirmed fish did not have unsafe levels of oil toxins.If convicted, the charge carries up to five years of probation for the corporation and fines that could total millions of dollars. ———Brown reported from Billings, Montana....