Oil spills into ocean waters, subject to winds and tides and spreading swiftly over wide areas, are difficult to clean up. The 3,000-barrel weekend spill off the coast of southern California is nowhere near as disastrous as mega-spills like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that sent millions of barrels of oil into U.S. waters of …
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