Santa Barbara oil spill cleanup costs exceed $60 million, officials say #HNNEnvironment

Cleaning up the thousands of gallons of crude oil that fouled Refugio State Beach on May 19 has cost more than $60 million, officials said today, and the figure is expected to grow as the cleanup continues. Cleanup costs hit a peak of about $3 million per day after a ruptured pipe spilled up to 101,000 gallons of oil along the Gaviota coast in Santa Barbara County last month.