Paul Relis

environmentalist and author

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Senior Vice President of CR&R Incorporated and author of Out of the Wasteland: Stories from the Environmental Frontier; former lecturer at UC Santa Barbara (1996-2013) and student at UC Santa Barbara when the 1969 oil spill occurred

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Tuesday's oil spill is being called "a worst nightmare scenario" by officials in Santa Barbara, California.

Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Tuesday's oil spill is being called "a worst nightmare scenario" by officials in Santa Barbara, California.

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