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Guardian: The Obama administration has ordered BP to use a less toxic form of chemical dispersant to break up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision, first reported in the Washington Post, comes only hours after Congress heard devastating testimony from BP executives and scientists on the high toxicity of two forms of Corexit, and their relative ineffectiveness against the type of crude now polluting the Gulf. The two versions of the chemical being used on the spill are banned in the ......
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Gulf oil spill chemical dispersant too toxic, EPA orders
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 20th, 2010
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