Though California has not granted a lease to a new offshore oil and gas rig in 5 decades, drilling on previously established wells still happens off the coast. But after the Huntington Beach oil spill, activists and politicians are renewing calls to shut down offshore drilling entirely . Lauren Kubiak from the Natural Resources Defense Council explains.

That’s not seaweed on the beach…After an oil spill closed beaches in Huntington Beach, California, crews are on the scene trying to clean up local wildlife and stop oil from clogging up rivers and harming marine life there. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain shows us a closed beach with oil all over the sand.