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Long a scourge to environmentalists, California’s offshore oil rigs may be transformed into ... president of Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific. The aquarium is hosting a conference that ...
Two people were injured after an oil rig collapsed Monday afternoon ... and needed to be freed by rescuers, according to the Long Beach Fire Department. The victim was rushed to the hospital ...
Darin Rupinski was asleep at 9:45 p.m. after a 12-hour shift on the Deepwater Horizon when the explosion rocked the oil rig on the Gulf of Mexico. The 23-year-old Long Beach resident ran outside ...
Even Louisiana and Texas are far ahead of California on this, with more than 600 former oil rigs transformed to artificial reefs, according to a report released Wednesday by Long Beach’s Aquariu ...
What goes on beneath the surface at these oil rigs? Click here to view a slideshow from this report. When Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) marine biologist Chris Lowe looks at an offshore oil rig ...
The video starts and we're headed toward an oil platform that the narrator says is eight miles off the coast of Long Beach. Soon ... as the "jacket" of the oil rig. Now underwater, sea lions ...
A big rig carrying macadamia nut oil overturned and caught fire Wednesday night, causing an hourslong lane closure on the 91 Freeway in Long Beach that continued into Thursday morning. The semi ...
LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the city of Long Beach today for approving a five-year program to drill for oil and gas within city limits without conducting the required review ...
An oil spill on the 710 Freeway in Long Beach is causing delays during the ... The spill is near the area where a big rig truck was jackknifed on the 91 Freeway in Long Beach early Thursday ...
Several eastbound lanes of the 91 Freeway remained shut down in the Compton area hours after a big rig ... nut oil across the freeway. The incident happened around 8 p.m. Wednesday at Long Beach ...