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Pipeline company to pay nearly $1M over California oil spill

FILE - In an aerial photo taken with a drone, workers in protective suits continue to clean an oil-contaminated beach in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Oct. 11, 2021. The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, agreed to accept a proposed claim settlement with Amplify Energy Corp, the owner of an underwater oil pipeline that spilled some 25,000 gallons of crude into the ocean. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File) FILE - Workers in protective suits clean the contaminated beach in Corona Del Mar after an oil spill off the Southern California coast, on Oct. 7, 2021. The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, agreed to accept a proposed claim settlement with Amplify Energy Corp, the owner of an underwater oil pipeline that spilled some 25,000 gallons of crude into the ocean. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File) FILE - Workers in protective suits continue to clean the contaminated beach with a platform in the background in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Oct. 11, 2021. The owner of an underwater oil pipeline that spilled some 25,000 gallons of crude into the ocean off Southern California will pay nearly $1 million in cleanup costs. The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 agreed to accept a proposed claim settlement with Amplify Energy Corp. over the costs of dealing with last October's spill off Huntington Beach. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)