The chemicals used to clean up oil spills may actually weaken nature's ability to do the cleaning itself. New research reveals that the oil dispersants sprayed across the Gulf of Mexico during the ...

The timing could not be worse for the bluefin tuna. The majestic, deepwater giant — threatened by overfishing — had just lost a bid for protection as an endangered species when oil started gushing ...

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The EPA has updated its rules on the use of chemicals to disperse oil spills. The rules for dispersants were last updated in 1994. That was just five years after a dispersant called Corexit was used ...

Workers who were likely exposed to dispersants while cleaning up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill experienced a range of health symptoms including cough and wheeze, and skin and eye irritation.

The more sunny the day, the less effective the controversial chemicals used to cleanup large oil spills. That's according to new research showing that sunlight greatly diminishes the potency of oil ...

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Federal officials said Friday that BP has not used dispersant chemicals to sink oil in the Mississippi Sound or just offshore along Alabama's Gulf shoreline. The statement came in response to ...

Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in April, vast quantities of dispersant chemicals have been sprayed onto the resulting slick. The chemicals--alongside corralling floating oil ...

During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which dumped nearly 5 million barrels of crude into the water, responders applied some 1.8 million gallons of chemical dispersant to ...