The dispersant used to remediate the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is more toxic to cold-water corals at lower concentrations than the spilled oil, according to a new study ...

It’s almost five years since Deepwater Horizon went belly up—and now research suggeststhat a dispersant used to clear up the site of the spill is more toxic to cold water corals than the oil itself.

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EPA demands replacement dispersant, BP official says no available alternative. May 21, 2010— -- Though the Environmental Protection Agency demanded Thursday BP find a "less toxic" dispersant to ...

In the wake of the BP oil spill, gaping questions remain about a key tool used during cleanup: the nearly 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants sprayed over the water or onto the gushing wellhead ...

The Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal last week to review the use of chemical dispersants in oil spill response. An environmental group based in Homer was part of the first push to ...

An oil spill's effect on deep-sea corals is bad enough. But the chemicals used to clean spills are worse. A spate of research is finding that the dispersants used to break up the 2010 BP oil spill, ...

(WVUE) - Seven years after the BP Oil Spill poured more than 4.9 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, researchers are finding out the impact that the more than a million gallons of ...

A dispersant plane was photographed April 27, 2010, passing an oil skimmer working to clean the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. ( Associated Press archive) The dispersant most often used during the BP ...

When the EPA approved Nalco’s Corexit to be used as an oil dispersant in the Deepwater Horizon disaster last month, we were more than a little concerned–trade secrets kept the exact ingredients of the ...

As oil continues to churn from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, many questions remain about where the oil will go and how it will affect marine life. Making those questions even tougher to answer are ...