oil spill

Thousands of samples from the 2010 BP oil spill are inside a South Florida warehouse. NBC 6 Investigators were granted exclusive access and explain why some say they could lead to answers.

Orange County supervisors voted Wednesday to accept nearly $1 million from Amplify Energy to cover expenses incurred responding to the oil spill off the waters of Huntington Beach in October.

Federal inspectors found that Plains had made several preventable errors, failed to quickly detect the pipeline rupture and responded too slowly as oil flowed toward the ocean.

Amplify Energy, the company that owns an oil rig that spilled crude into the waters off of Huntington Beach, filed a federal lawsuit Monday against two shipping companies accused of dragging anchors over the pipe that sprung a leak.

A Los Angeles federal grand jury has charged a Texas oil company and two subsidiaries for an oil spill off the California coast in October

Fishing along the Orange County coast resumes Monday, after an oil spill forced a shutdown of fisheries since Oct. 3.