Chemical that EPA sanctions to help clean up oil spills sickens people and fish, lawsuit claims
Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Director P.J. Hahn rescues a bird covered in oil from Barataria Bay, off the Louisiana coast, in June 2010, two months after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. By Darryl Fears Darryl Fears Reporter focusing on the Chesapeake Bay and issues affecting wildlife Email Bio Follow March 26 at 9:14 AM Kindra Arnesen’s fishing boats are still parked near Venice, La., but she left years ago.
In the absence of an update, the EPA has continued to allow emergency responders to use a chemical mixture called Corexit to disperse oil into droplets that allow microbes to further break it down, the groups say. A Louisiana State University study two years prior had a similar finding: that symptoms from exposure resulted in “burning in nose, throat or lungs, sore throat, dizziness and wheezing."
The other plaintiffs come from Alaska, where the Trump administration is pushing to open up the National Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil leasing for the first time. They include an activist inletkeeper, a community group and an Inuit woman. “This leasing program, combined with the [administration’s] planned dismantling of federal drilling safety standards, puts coastal communities at serious risk of disastrous oil spills,” the law center said in a statement. “Given the history of offshore oil drilling, it is simply a matter of when — not if — a devastating oil spill will occur.
Arnesen said her family moved about 15 miles north from Venice to Buras on a spit of Louisiana land that extends into the Gulf.
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