This article was originally published in May 2010, shortly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier this week, an oil pipeline off the coast of Santa Barbara ruptured ...

As part of this study, the committee will review research on the use of dispersants during actual spills, both for surface and subsurface applications (e.g., the 2009 Montara oil spill off the ...

Gulf oil spill: Airborne chemistry measurements assess flow rate, fate of spilled gases and oil. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 03 ...

Treating oil spills at sea with chemical dispersants is detrimental to European sea bass. A new study, to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting in Valencia on July 6 ...

Climate and Environment Chemical that EPA allows to help clean up oil spills sickens people and fish, lawsuit claims. People exposed to the chemical suffer coughing, wheezing and rashes, lawsuit says.

This past winter, researchers from the Center for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba (UM) completed the first-ever controlled oil spill experiment at the Churchill Marine ...

Wallingford firefighters responded to their third incident in less than 12 hours on Thursday morning. The latest incident started as an oil spill at the Allnex chemical facility on Cherry Street. The ...

Researchers at CUNY and Tulane University have developed a biodegradable, plant-based chemical to round up oil spills. By William Herkewitz Published: Jun 26, 2015 2:00 PM EDT.

The use of chemical dispersants following a major oil spill has been controversial. However, it remains the oil industry's standard go-to response to most spills. Marine toxicologist, Riki Ott ...

A new wide-ranging scientific report has concluded that the chemicals used to cleanup the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill remain an effective response option for large spills -- a ...

The tally of oil and chemical spills in the wake of Hurricane Ida continues to grow, reaching 350 on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.. The reported spills in Louisiana are mostly ...