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Studies on the health effects of the oil dispersant Corexit are careful to distinguish between the two types used during the BP oil spill: EC9500A and EC9527A, as some of the research shows differential interactions with oil and different impacts on human symptoms.
When the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010 and spewed many millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the disastrous spill damaged the economy, devastated the environment ...
Bob Dudley, the BP (BP) managing director overseeing the clean-up of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, recently told CBS News that his "top personal priority" is to listen to people's concerns.
Cleanup of the BP oil spill. In the weeks and months after the disaster, Mattiford, 59, said representatives from BP fanned out across the area handing out money and hiring people to work on ...
BP officials deny that the disease conditions are related to the spill, saying that dolphin deaths actually began being reported before the BP oil spill. [ 198 ] [ 212 ] [ 213 ] By 2013, over 650 dolphins had been found stranded in the oil spill area, a four-fold increase over the historical average. [ 214 ]
In June 2010, Steve Goodie, [121] a comedy musician, wrote parody lyrics to The Doobie Brothers' hit song "Black Water" related to the BP oil spill. "Black Water [BP Version]" also had a YouTube video [122] and was a Top Ten hit on The Dr. Demento radio show. In 2011, Rise Against released a song titled "Help Is on the Way" on their album Endgame.
The responders who reported breathing oil fumes were 40% to 50% more likely to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-like symptoms and sinus problems compared to those who said they didn’t ...
A study of 247 BP oil spill clean-up workers released in September 2013 by the American Journal of Medicine showed the workers were at an increased risk of developing cancer, leukemia and other illnesses. The study concluded that "clean-up workers exposed to the oil spill and dispersant experienced significantly altered blood profiles, liver ...