New York Times | Oil Again Fouling California Coast Near Site of Historic Spill New York Times Refugio was filled not with vacationers, but with teams of workers in white coveralls and masks, scooping up sand fouled with oil that had washed in after a pipeline broke earlier this week. The smell of oil, not surf, was in the air as Coast Guard ... California crews struggle to contain nine-mile oil spill with booms The last oil spill in Santa Barbara helped birth environmentalism. What will ... Santa Barbara oil spill: Crude flowed 'well below' capacity in ruptured pipe |