Peter Van Tuyn, conservationist, attorney. In 1970, as the oil companies were poised to start construction on the pipeline, the environmentalists fought back, invoking the new environmental ...
When the Sept. 16 crash happened, only a chain link fence stood between the SUV and the pipeline after the vehicle veered out of a Walmart parking lot and sped across the grassy field.
He would learn later about the oil-covered birds, the dead dolphins and sea lions — casualties of a pipeline that ruptured and spilled more than 120,000 gallons of crude oil along the Gaviota ...