Oil Begins Flowing Through California Pipeline Under Trump Order

Oil had not flowed through the pipeline since a 2015 rupture caused an environmental disaster on California’s Central Coast. It sets up a new fight between the Trump administration and state officials.A leaky pipeline was the source of a spill, seen in this 2015 file photo, that polluted Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., and killed hundreds of birds and marine mammals. The pipeline’s new owner, Sable Offshore, says the problems have been fixed and that it has restarted the flow of oil at the direction of the Trump administration.