Factoid/2012/07/27
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The Gulf Oil Spill - Was the Cure Worse Than the Disease?
- "In short, the chemicals used to clean up the spill were killing the bacteria that would have biodegraded the oil naturally in just two or three months. As a result, two years later, there are still toxic levels of tar product on Gulf Coast beaches. Many of these beaches have already been deemed clean according to the standards set forth in the National Contingency Plan, which specifies that a beach is clean if a sampling area of 1 square meter has less than 1 percent of oil visible on the surface." - excerpt from article in Surfer Magazine.
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