AOL News | Oily Substance on California Beach Prompts Officials to Close Coastline ABC News The news comes a week after a Plains All American oil pipeline ruptured in Santa Barbara, dumping 101,000 gallons of crude oil onto the Refugio State Beach and leaving a 9-mile-long slick in the ocean that decimated sea life. Officials are still trying ... Miles of SoCal coastline closed after mysterious 'globs' of oil begin washing ... Oil globs close Los Angeles-area beaches to swimming Globs of oil are washing ashore on a southern California beach |