“Our clients have directly experienced the harms from use of toxic dispersants to address spilled oil. EPA’s delay in updating its oil-spill response plan to reflect scientific knowledge about the ...

Oil spills are significant environmental disasters that can have devastating effects on marine ecosystems, shorelines, and coastal communities. The research surrounding oil spills focuses on ...

Instead of mitigating environmental harm, these chemical dispersants have proven to be more toxic to humans — and often to the environment — than the oil itself. “The EPA is today operating pursuant ...

but dispersants were used extensively on the Amoco Cadiz spill, and Bodin found them to be more toxic to marine life than the oil itself. "The massive use of Corexit 9500 in the Gulf is ...

One area of research has examined the effects of chemical dispersants used in oil spill response on seabird feathers. A study involving common eiders and thick-billed murres found that exposure to ...

and dispersants have little effect on it", said James. "With over 20 years in the oil spill response industry, I can tell you that any HFO generally presents more challenges to clean up than a ...

For many years, Baltic Sea countries have been using a rather surprising product to help prepare strategies to tackle an oil ...

Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke, the Director General of the National Oil Spillage Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), along with other members of the agency’s leadership, conducted a critical assessment ...

Submitted by Friends of the San Juans. On Saturday, Oct. 26, 4 p.m. at Brickworks, oil spill veteran and activist Dr. Riki ...