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Miles-long oil slick spotted off coast of Huntington Beach
Authorities are investigating an oil slick discovered off the coast of Huntington Beach in Southern California on Friday.
The slick is about 2.5-miles-long, and is located about 3 miles off the coast, near the oil platforms named Emmy and Eva the U.S. Coast Guard reported.
“Aerial surveys are planned to assess the size and potential impacts,” the Coast Guard said in a social media post.
The Coast Guard has taken samples from oil sheen and is trying to minimize any environmental impact it could have by using booms and absorbent material to limit the oil from spreading, the agency said.
In another statement Friday afternoon, the Coast Guard said that it was “contacting all potential spill sources in the area, but no source has been identified,” adding that it has “hired an oil spill response organization to conduct offshore oil collection and is working to identify possible impacts to the shoreline and environmental protection strategies.”
The agency also reported that it had established a unified command with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the sheriff’s department to respond the sheen.
Amplify Energy said in statement Friday that there is “no indication that this sheen is related to our operations.”
In October 2021, a rupture to an Amplify Energy oil pipeline off the Huntington Beach coast spilled 25,000 gallons of oil into the ocean. as believed that a ship’s anchor dragged across it. Amplify has claimed that a ship’s anchor had damaged the pipeline and caused the leak.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department were the first to report the sheen, which was spotted around 7 p.m. on Thursday.
Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley wrote earlier on X that crews were responding to the area, saying there were initial reports that oil had spilled from an offshore platform.
Some tar balls were spotted on the sand in Huntington Beach, but it was unclear if the two events were related.
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NEW YORK — Former New York Gov. David Paterson and his stepson were attacked in New York City on Friday night, authorities said.
The incident occurred just before 9 p.m. on Second Avenue near East 96th Street on the Upper East Side, according to the New York City Police Department.
Police said officers were sent to the scene after an assault was reported. When officers arrived, police say they found a 20-year-old man suffering from facial injuries and a 70-year-old man who had head pain. Both victims were taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the former governor said the two were attacked while “taking a walk around the block near their home by some individuals that had a previous interaction with his stepson.”
The spokesperson said that they were injured “but were able to fight off their attackers.”
Both were taken to Cornell Hospital “as a precaution,” he added.
Police said no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
The 70-year-old Paterson, a Democrat, served as governor from 2008 to 2010, stepping into the post after the resignation of Eliot Spitzer following his prostitution scandal. He made history at the time as the state’s first-ever Black and legally blind governor.