Dispersing oil that spills into the ocean, for instance the oil that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico from Deepwater Horizon, involves chemicals called surfactants, which can harm local sea life. Now, a ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Transport and Fate." National Research Council. 2005. Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy and Effects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11283. surface ...

The chemicals that were used to break up oil from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout have long been suspected of sickening workers who responded to the disaster. Now a federal health agency is ...

“The EPA announced that its latest round of tests show that the dispersant-oil mixture is no more toxic than the oil itself. Yet, a Swedish study, using EPA test data, found that ‘a mixture of oil and ...

aircraft release oil dispersant over an oil spill from the mobile offshore drilling unit, Deepwater Horizon, off the shore of Louisiana, May 5, 2010. To date, the unified response has dropped 156, 364 ...

Chemical dispersants are some of the best tools to clean up after an oil spill. However, scientists do not fully understand how well they work. A new study validated their efficacy in order to better ...

Scientists and ocean advocates stepped up warnings this week of potential dangers from chemical dispersants, as oil giant BP released unprecedented amounts of a classified and toxic chemical to thin ...

With the coastal cleanup apparently downshifting and BP in the final stages of preparing for a static kill operation to help close the well, we may all soon need something new to obsess/post about.

Toxic, chemical-laden oil from the Wakashio seen in the muddy silt around new roots of Mangrove trees in the protected Anse Jonchée forest 6 miles North of the ship crash site and an important fish ...