NEW ORLEANS - Environmental groups and women from Alaska and Louisiana are asking a federal court to make the Environmental Protection Agency set new rules for use of oil spill dispersants, citing worries about the chemicals’ health and environmental effects. “Deepwater Horizon was a wake-up call that current response methods only increase the destruction oil spills cause. The introduction to the proposed rules says they are based on information learned from spills including the BP oil spill of 2010. The clinic notified EPA in March and again in September that its clients would sue if rules were not completed within 60 days. The current rules allow “open-ended” use of chemical dispersants in offshore oil spills, the lawsuit says.

Source: thestar January 30, 2020 19:23 UTC