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Opposition to Offshore Drilling May Fade

Posted on September 03, 2008

One January morning in 1969, eight kilometers off the coast of southern California, all hell broke loose.A drilling accident at an offshore oil rig led to the leakage of 11 million liters of oil in the nearby Santa Barbara channel. Thousands of seabirds, fish, and marine mammals were killed. As clean-up volunteers rushed to the beach, the day's events led to the start of a new environmental movement in the United States. The nation's first Earth Day was launched one year later, and an offshore drilling moratorium was imposed in 1982. Nearly 40 years after the Santa Barbara spill, public opinio...

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