¨¨¨ Corexit and crude oil combined “can be more toxic than either alone,” according to Susan D. Shaw of the Marine Environmental Research Institute.

Don't miss out on the headlines from Gladstone. Followed categories will be added to My News. It follows the use of the agent Corexit 9527 in the emergency response to the Shen Neng 1 oil spill in ...

But Corexit has been the dispersant of choice in past oil spills, and it’s what oil companies have in their stockpiles. If field tests with Dispersit go well, we can only hope that BP relents ...

When the EPA approved Nalco’s Corexit to be used as an oil dispersant in the Deepwater Horizon disaster last month, we were more than a little concerned –trade secrets kept the exact ...

The oil company defended its use of Corexit and taken issue with the methods the agency used to estimate its toxicity, and continued to spray the chemicals past the E.P.A. deadline.

A new study by the Surfrider Foundation finds BP’s Corexit-tainted oil remains entrenched on the beaches and in the shallows of the Gulf, and that human skin likes nothing better than to suck it ...

BP injected 3,000 tons of a subsea dispersant called Corexit to push back the spread of oil and dissolve its particles. Instead, the researchers report, the dispersant was rendered ineffective due ...

By John Cousins Bay of Plenty Times· 28 Sep, 2013 09:29 PM3 mins to read ...

Corexit made it almost impossible to contain spilled oil so it could be recovered with skimmers, he said. The chemical broke down the oil so rapidly that “it went over the booms and made ...

AMSA spokeswoman Jo Meehan said Corexit would not be used for future spills. "AMSA will use Slickgone NS in the event of an oil spill in Gladstone, which has passed AMSA's testing regime," she said.

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One Corexit ingredient is 2-butoxyethanol, a chemical that can cause liver and kidney damage. The upshot: BP was allowed to keep dumping the chemicals.