The mammoth oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico is horrifying, to be sure, but the chemical oil dispersants that BP started using just a week after the spill may be hurting more than helping. BP briefly ...

Corexit and crude oil combined “can be more toxic than either alone,” according to Susan D. Shaw of the Marine Environmental Research Institute. “The properties that facilitate the movement of ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Companies involved in the use of the dispersant Corexit during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year cannot get immunity from what may be hundreds of thousands of personal ...

A federal judge in New Orleans will accept materials through a deadline next week on whether Nalco, the maker of chemical dispersants used in the BP oil spill, can remain in litigation. Hundreds of ...

British Petroleum and government disaster-relief agencies are using a toxic chemical to disperse oil in the Gulf of Mexico, even though a better alternative appears to be available. As the Deepwater ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. During a conference call with reporters on May 24, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, ...

Company siphoning less oil than it claimed to be capturing. May 21, 2010— -- A day after the Environmental Protection Agency gave BP 72 hours to start using a "less toxic" dispersant to help ...

COVINGTON, La. – COVINGTON, La. (AP) — BP PLC said Saturday it wants to keep using a contentious chemical dispersant to fight the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, despite orders from federal regulators to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the BP leak has dumped thousands of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico each day—and ...

A promising alternative to the highly toxic oil dispersant being used in the Gulf is finally being tested, but slowly. Dispersit was approved 10 years ago by the Environmental Protection Agency for ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion tore through Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the next three months, the exposed wellhead released some 750 million liters of oil into the Gulf ...