This site from UC Santa Barbara provides details about the 1969 oil spill off the coast of California which marred 35 miles of coastline. Information is provided about the ecological impact of the spill as well as info on the clean-up efforts, the aftermath, and what went wrong.

Concepts

earth day, oil spills, water pollution

Show More Show Less

Additional Tags

1969 oil spill, conservation efforts, environmental movements, get oil out, union oil company, oil spills in california

Show More Show Less

Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information