Drilling could resume where a 1969 oil spill inspired Earth Day

“The full extent will never really be known,” Frankel said as he walked amid those same palms, many of them now teetering and washing away from winter storms and rising seas. He has become a lawyer for the Environmental Defense Center, a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit, and one of the people trying to block an effort to restart that defunct pipeline and boost an offshore oil industry that for years has been fading into the California sunset. They include Platform Holly, which shut down after the 2015 oil spill at Refugio...