Guardian: Mark Massara was eight years old in 1969, when a blowout at a Union Oil well off the California coast spilled more than three million gallons of crude along the beaches of Santa Barbara and devastated one of the northern hemispheres most prized ecosystems.
He remembers going to the beach with his family and throwing hay on the oil as it washed ashore a frustratingly inadequate gesture that stayed with him as he later built a career as one of Californias top environmental lawyers.
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