http://www.newsweek.com/what-was-worst-oil-spill-us-america-history-california-huntington-beach-1635147 > A catastrophic oil spill in the Pacific Ocean off the southern Californian coast has left fish dead, birds covered in petroleum, and wetlands contaminated. > In a press conference hours after the spill was first reported on Saturday morning, Huntington Beach Mayor Kim Carr called the spill an "environmental catastrophe" and "potential ecological disaster."