5 years after the spill: The environmental impact

The BP Spill Was Worse Than You Knew

The BP Spill Was Worse Than You Knew
"Now the media has moved on and public anger has cooled, but the full extent of the damage is finally coming out—and it’s clear that the spill was even worse than we thought."

The Spilling Fields: How BP Made The Gulf Oil Disaster More Toxic While Covering It Up

The Spilling Fields: How BP Made The Gulf Oil Disaster More Toxic While Covering It Up: Mark Hertsgaard has a must-read piece in Newsweek on how “The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was even worse than BP wanted us to know.” His piece is about the dangers created by the 1.84 million gallons of Corexit used to “clean up” the 210 million gallons of Louisiana crude BP negligently spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. [...]/p

Study: Corexit Made Gulf Oil Spill 52 Times More Toxic

Study: Corexit Made Gulf Oil Spill 52 Times More Toxic
"Julia Whitty writes for Mother Jones on the environment and she's written about the dramatic decline in microscopic life on Gulf beaches and also about how using dispersant allowed oil to penetrate much more deeply into beaches, possibly extending lifespan of its toxicity. Now she highlights a new study that finds the addition of Corexit to the Gulf oil explosion made the whole mess much more toxic:"