Gulf of Mexico Clean-Up Makes 2010 Spill 52-Times More Toxic

Friday, November 30, 2012 - 12:01 in Earth & Climate

If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse - 52-times more toxic. That's according to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico.

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