A Texas oil company was granted permission to repair an underwater pipeline that ruptured off the coast of Southern California a year ago
LOS ANGELES — , spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude, and forced beaches and fisheries to close.
The approval to rebuild the pipe running from an oil rig off Huntington Beach to tanks in Long Beach comes less than a month after Amplify pleaded guilty to federal charges of negligently discharging oil. The Houston-based company and two subsidiaries also agreed to plead no contest in state court to polluting water and killing birds.
Environmentalists who want the pipeline shut down criticized the permit approval and renewed calls to put an end to offshore oil operations. Amplify contended that the spill wouldn't have occurred if two ships hadn't dragged their anchors across the pipeline and damaged it during a January 2021 storm. It said it wasn’t notified about the anchor snagging until after the spill.
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