It reveals that cleanup workers have increased immediate risk of contaminating diseases, such as headache and skin irritation, due to the oil spill since they have longer exposure. The authors speculates on the long-term health effects of the oil spill to the residents of the Gulf of Mexico,...
As we all know, the BP oil spill in 2010 was good for absolutely nobody. This slick substance now sits on the surface of the scene of the crime. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 has caused reverberations across the world – as millions of gallons of oil was lost to the sea a...
Randall Wells of the Chicago Zoological Society measured a dolphin from Sarasota Bay in 2010. Dolphins there were found to be in better health than those living close to the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NOAA According to new data from 2011 NOAA ...
Six years on, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is still claiming victims. More than 170 stillborn and juvenile bottlenose dolphins found stranded in recent years along the Gulf Coast were likely killed by oil from the April 2010explosion of the Deepwater Horizon ...
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill | BP Causes, Summary & Facts from Chapter 6/ Lesson 31 27K Discover the cause of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill. Study a summary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the effects of the oil spill, and the cleanup. ...
Coastal residents are asking how long they'll be living with the effects of BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.”For more information about BP cleanup efforts, please visit http://www.npr.org/2013/12/21/255843362/for-bp-cleanup-2013-meant-4-6-million-pounds-of-gulf-coast-oil....
But Alex still qualifies as a warning shot. What happens when a hurricane or tropical storm passes over the site of the worst oil accident in America's history? "This is a first, to see a spill of this size in tropical waters," said Chris Vaccaro of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atm...
Release date: 22 April 2010 BP today activated an extensive oil spill response in the US Gulf of Mexico following the fire and subsequent sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles south-east of New Orleans. BP is assisting Transocean in an asses...
We use the BP oil spill to provide new evidence regarding the consequences of, and motivations for, environmental disclosures. We find that among oil and gas firms drilling in US waters, those with greater environmental disclosure suffered smaller negative shareholder wealth effects following the spill...
BP, Nalco, and EPA Face More Corexit Claims. (cover story)The article reports on the increasing number of claims relating to the effects of the use of dispersants in response to the 2010 oil spill from BP plc's Macondo/MC252 well in the Gulf of Mexico. A coalition of environmental, ...