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Health defects found in fish exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil spill, three years later
2013-05-01 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Crude oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species for at least more than a year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University of California, Davis, scientist. With researchers from Louisiana and South Carolina, the scientists found that Gulf killifish embryos exposed to sediments from oiled locations in 2010 and 2011 show developmental abnormalities, including heart defects, delayed...
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Cove Where Exxon Oil Has Been Found Is Part of Lake Conway
2013-04-10 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, the company announced that no oil had leaked into Lake Conway, a major recreational reservoir just nine-tenths of a mile from the spill site in central Arkansas. Some oil had spilled into a "cove adjacent to" the lake, the company said, but "Lake Conway remains oil free," according to news releases Exxon issued as recently as April 5 [3]. That position has sparked a debate over where Lake Conwayone of Arkansas' premier fishing spotsbegins...