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Dead dolphins and shrimp with no eyes found after BP clean-up
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Hundreds of beached dolphin carcasses, shrimp with no eyes, contaminated fish, ancient corals caked in oil and some seriously unwell people are among the legacies that scientists are still uncovering in the wake of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill. This
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EPA Accused Of Blocking Scientific Advancement of Corexit In BP Cleanup
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 months ago
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Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference group, issued a press release this week saying that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effectively blocked or otherwise delayed scientific advancement in the cleanup of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil
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Mouthwash Leaves Man With Bad Taste
Auckland :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
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As a result of an investigation, a Christchurch man was yesterday sentenced for importing the Class B controlled drug GBL. Mark Wright, 42, was sentenced to six months of community detention and 200 hours community service after he pleaded guilty to
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Vibrant Life to Launch New MSM Product
Herndon :: VA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Vibrant Life provides valuable research information and Vibrant Life retail products that help to improve overall health. February 20, 2013 Vibrant Life is pleased to
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Chemicals EPA ordered dumped in Gulf turned 2010 oil spill into total disaster
Aguascalientes :: Mexico | 6 months ago
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It's true the almost five million barrels of oil that contaminated the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was an ecological nightmare. And residents of the area have complained for the last two years that the chemicals dumped into
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Scientists say they need to respond better to oil spills
Mexico City :: Mexico | 6 months ago
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As oil companies continue to push for drilling in new and increasingly more dangerous territory, including in the Gulf of Mexico, federal scientists say they need to be better prepared to respond to accidents than they were during the BP Deepwater
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Clean-up of Gulf oil spill was more toxic
Aguascalientes :: Mexico | 6 months ago
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The study found that mixing the dispersant with oil increased toxicity of the mixture up to 52-fold over the oil alone. In toxicity tests in the lab, the mixture's effects increased mortality of rotifers, a microscopic grazing animal at the base of
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BP oil spill cleanup toxic to key species
Aguascalientes :: Mexico | 6 months ago
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Corexit 9500A were released into the Gulf of Mexico to try to mitigate the devastating underwater petroleum leak caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig on April 20, 2010. An oil-covered brown pelican sits in a pool of
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How attempts to clear up the Deepwater Horizon spill may have made it WORSE: Dispersant chemicals 'made oil penetrate Gulf Coast beaches more deeply'
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 6 months ago
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30 November 2012 The dispersant chemicals BP used in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster may have made oil sink deeper and faster into the beaches of the U.S...A new paper warns toxic components of light crude may even have penetrated as far
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Ecolab unit dismissed from oil spill lawsuits
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 6 months ago
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Ecolab Inc.'s Nalco Holding Co. unit, which provided a dispersant used to deal with the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, has been dismissed from lawsuits over the incident. BP used the Nalco chemical dispersant to break up oil and reduce the harm to
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