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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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Experts: BP Oil Spill Gone From Deep Ocean, but Remains in Marshes
2013-04-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Knox News: Scientists cannot find traces of oil in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico three years after the nations worst offshore spill, but residual toxins are still in the sediment along the coastal marshes, according to scientists at the University of Tennessee who have studied the effects of the spill. Bacteria in the Gulf was already adapted to consuming oil that naturally leaks from the ground into the water there, said Terry Hazen, a Governors Chair for Environmental Biotechnology at UT and Oak...
Oil spill prompts advisory in Moss Point
2013-04-27 18:20:27| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has emergency crews at Dutch Bayou responding to a fuel spill at the Pilot Travel Center on Mississippi 63.
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Arkansas Oil Spill Damage Assessment: If Not the Feds, then Who?
2013-04-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Federal agencies have so far not decided whether to undertake an assessment of the ecological harm caused by ExxonMobil's pipeline break, which spewed a tarry oil slick into yards, streets and creeks in a central Arkansas town. For now, they're leaving it to state agencies to decide whether and how to quantify and counteract the environmental damage. The rupture in the Pegasus pipeline on March 29 dumped up to an estimated 294,000 gallons of Canadian heavy crude in Mayflower, Ark.including in...
Ark. Oil Spill Probe Falls to Understaffed Agency With Close Industry Ties
2013-04-22 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Just a day after roughly one million gallons of heavy Canadian crude [3] oil spilled into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it was launching a formal investigation into the incident. It quickly set up shop in a local hotel and conducted dozens of interviews with pipeline workers, local officials and residents. It did field and laboratory analysis of the ruptured pipeline in its own labs. And its investigators pored over the responsible companys...
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