Air pollution levels from Deepwater Horizon spill similar to large urban area

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 09:02 in Earth & Climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- The amount of air pollutants in the atmospheric plume generated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was similar to a large city according to a new NOAA-led study published today in a special issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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