Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Study: Corexit Made Gulf Oil Spill 52 Times More Toxic

Study: Corexit Made Gulf Oil Spill 52 Times More Toxic
"Julia Whitty writes for Mother Jones on the environment and she's written about the dramatic decline in microscopic life on Gulf beaches and also about how using dispersant allowed oil to penetrate much more deeply into beaches, possibly extending lifespan of its toxicity. Now she highlights a new study that finds the addition of Corexit to the Gulf oil explosion made the whole mess much more toxic:"

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