New Requirements for Dispersant Use in Gulf Oil Spill

Today the EPA released new requirements for BP to use a less toxic dispersant since they are using so much. Hip-hip-horray…about three weeks late but better late than never, right? But to be fair to BP, they were purchasing the stronger, more toxic dispersant, from a sister company or something to that effect. So why use less toxic chemicals they’d have to buy from an outside vendor? Seriously.

BP has 24 hours to find a new dispersant to use and then they have to have it approved by the EPA.

In addition, BP is now drawing 5000 barrels of oil to the surface via the tube inserted and oil is still billowing out of the 21 inch pipe which has led BP to admit the spill is much larger than they thought. A mechanical engineer said there could be 20,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil spewing into the Gulf every day.

And….the wetlands are now being coated in the first wave of toxic, thick oil. God help us.