Researchers from Temple University and Penn State University found the dispersant used to remediate the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is more toxic to cold-water corals at ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region's ecosystem can be ...

Research from Concordia University highlights nanotechnology's potential in enhancing coastal oil spill remediation with ...

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 ...

The U.S. government has declared the oil spill a national disaster ... The Man o' War is covered with orange-colored chemical dispersant used to help break up some of the oil.

Skimming or burning the oil may not be feasible in such fast-moving water. The most, and possibly only, effective method to respond to a spill would be surface and subsurface dispersants.

SINGAPORE – The marine environment might recover after each oil spill incident, but too many of such events would compromise its ability to do so, said marine scientists. Singapore has had at ...

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

These include surface washing agents, dispersants, sorbents and bioremediation ... application of nanotechnology in coastal oil spill response. We also need to scale up testing to measure this ...