{"id":730607,"date":"2010-05-20T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/?p=589"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:40:00","slug":"just-what-the-doctor-ordered-epa-tells-bp-to-use-less-toxic-oil-dispersants-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/730607","title":{"rendered":"Just what the doctor ordered: EPA tells BP to use less toxic oil dispersants in the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/environmentaldefense.org\/page.cfm?tagID=908\"><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D.<\/em><\/a><em>, is a Senior Scientist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This just out: The <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/20\/AR2010052002179.html?hpid=topnews\"><em>Washington Post<\/em> is reporting<\/a> that EPA has given BP 24 hours to identify and locate a supply of a less toxic dispersant to be applied to the Gulf oil spill, and to begin using it within an additional 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>As noted in <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/2010\/05\/17\/compounding-the-problem-why-aren%e2%80%99t-we-using-the-safest-and-most-effective-dispersants-in-the-gulf\/\">my last post<\/a>, EPA has identified numerous alternative dispersants that are both less toxic and more effective than those on which BP has been relying to date &#8212; more than 600,000 gallons of which have already been released into Gulf waters. The <em>Post<\/em> also notes that some forms of the initial dispersants, sold by Nalco under the trade name Corexit\u00ae, were banned by the British government more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=m72QZSd0KRA:spvgTPNVOts:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=m72QZSd0KRA:spvgTPNVOts:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=m72QZSd0KRA:spvgTPNVOts:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=m72QZSd0KRA:spvgTPNVOts:u0Zhe-nyOHo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=u0Zhe-nyOHo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=m72QZSd0KRA:spvgTPNVOts:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/environmentaldefense\/~4\/m72QZSd0KRA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. This just out: The Washington Post is reporting that EPA has given BP 24 hours to identify and locate a supply of a less toxic dispersant to be applied to the Gulf oil spill, and to begin using it within an additional 72 hours. As noted in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-343Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832054,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730607\/revisions\/832054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}