Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Southern California, investigators are looking at whether a German cargo ship was involved in the oil spill that's now polluting beaches, waters and fragile wetlands. Today, officials gave a new lower estimate of how much crude oil may have been spilled from a pipeline that was damaged on the ocean floor last weekend. To talk about all this, we're joined by NPR environment correspondent Nathan Rott, who's in Huntington Beach. Hi, Nate. NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. SHAPIRO: OK, so this pipeline was dragged across the ocean floor. What's the latest that officials are saying on what might have dragged it and how much damage it's caused? ROTT: Well, yeah, there's a lot of questions. I think - I mean, the biggest news today is certainly what you mentioned, that they've revised the number of just how much oil leaked from this pipeline. Earlier, officials had said that as much as 144,000 gallons of crude oil may have spilled.
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