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Office of Energy Research
Office of the Executive Director
Office of the Deputy STA for Civilian R&D
Office of Assesment and Support
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM)
Office of ES&H Technical Support
Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
Office of Fusion Energy
Office of Health and Environmental Research
Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics
Office of Management
Office of Scientific Computing
Office of Subseadbed Disposal Research
Office of Superconducting Super Collider
Superconducting Super Collider Web Server
Energy Sciences Network

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.