In this Thursday, Oct 7, file photo, Workers in protective suits clean the contaminated beach in Corona Del Mar after an oil spill in Newport Beach. California's uneasy relationship with the oil industry is being tested again by the latest spill to foul beaches and kill birds and fish off Orange County. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)
HUNTINGTON BEACH (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard has designated the Mediterranean Shipping Company and others as parties of interest in an investigation into a vessel that was determined to be the source of an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California.Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board marine casualty investigators boarded a container ship, MSC DANIT, Saturday, Oct. 26, in the Port of Long Beach that was involved in a January anchor-dragging incident discovered to be the source of the spill off Huntington Beach Oct. 2, according to Lt. Cmdr. Braden Rostad.The designation announced in a statement on Saturday names ship operator Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. and ship owner Dordellas Finance Corporation.It provides the owner and operator of MSC DANIT th
