Nontoxic, bioremediation methods could be regulated for use in oil spills
By Hicbd
Mon Jul 26 2021 3:52 pm
"The University of California-Berkeley Environmental Law Clinic and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today in federal court in San Francisco to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to issue rules restricting use of chemical agents such as Corexit to clean up oil spills. Instead of mitigating environmental harm, these chemical dispersants have proven to be more toxic to humans and the environment than oil alone...Along with countless members of her community, she, her husband and their two children were sickened with migraines, lesions, rashes, and respiratory problems that persist to this day. The damage to the Gulf waters also decimated their once-thriving family fishing business."
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