California state prosecutors are taking Sable Offshore to court, accusing the oil company of repeatedly discharging dirt and other material into coastal streams and wetlands without a permit as it rushed to bring a pipeline and an offshore drilling platform back online. … The lawsuit accuses Sable of digging around the idle pipeline it is seeking to repair and reopen without first seeking a permit from the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. … The work, called “pig and dig” operations, risks damaging the “sensitive aquatic and riparian habitat” by discharging dirt and vegetation in violation of state water quality rules, according to the complaint.

Other water pollution news:

• San Diego Reader: Pine Hill Egg Ranch in Ramona has to watch its wastewater
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