WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed new requirements for testing the toxicity and effectiveness of chemical dispersants used to break up oil spills. The move comes 14 ...

The dispersant used to remediate the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is more toxic to cold-water corals at lower concentrations than the spilled oil, according to a new study ...

It’s almost five years since Deepwater Horizon went belly up—and now research suggeststhat a dispersant used to clear up the site of the spill is more toxic to cold water corals than the oil itself.

EPA demands replacement dispersant, BP official says no available alternative. May 21, 2010— -- Though the Environmental Protection Agency demanded Thursday BP find a "less toxic" dispersant to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Company siphoning less oil than it claimed to be capturing. May 21, 2010— -- A day after the Environmental Protection Agency gave BP 72 hours to start using a "less toxic" dispersant to help ...

As oil continues to churn from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, many questions remain about where the oil will go and how it will affect marine life. Making those questions even tougher to answer are ...

Some people believe that there’s no problem that peanut butter, chocolate and whipped cream can’t solve. These people could be onto something with news that a team of researchers has developed a new, ...

A dispersant plane was photographed April 27, 2010, passing an oil skimmer working to clean the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. ( Associated Press archive) The dispersant most often used during the BP ...

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 ingredients of the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency ordered British Petroleum to change the type of dispersant the company is using to keep oil from reaching American shores. The EPA gave the company 72 hours to ...