A ship’s anchor may have snagged, dragged and torn an underwater pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean off Southern California, according to federal investigators who also discovered that the pipeline owner did not quickly shut down operations after a system security alerted of a possible spill.
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Workers clean the oil from the sand south of the pier in Newport Beach, Calif. On Tuesday, October 5, 2021. An oil pipeline leak caused a spill off the southern California coast, sending approximately 126,000 gallons of oil in the ocean, some are found on the beaches of Orange County.
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Ship’s anchor may have caused huge California oil spill
Questions remained about the timeline of the weekend’s spill, which tainted beaches and a protected swamp, potentially shutting them down for weeks, along with commercial and recreational fishing, a major blow to the local economy.
Some reports of a possible spill, a smell of petroleum and an oily sheen on the waters off Huntington Beach arrived Friday night but were unsubstantiated and the pipeline operator, Amplify Energy Corp. , did not report a spill until the next morning, authorities said.
In this file photo from September 30, 2021, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration is set to relax the rules of a student loan cancellation program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements. The change could offer debt relief to thousands of teachers, social workers, the military and other public servants. The Education Department has announced that it will temporarily drop some of the more stringent requirements of the program, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which was launched in 2007 to steer more college graduates into the public service.
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The distressed student loan cancellation program is being overhauled
Biden administration set to relax rules on student loan cancellation program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements – a change that could offer debt relief to thousands of teachers, workers social workers, military and other officials.
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