On August 20th scientists produced new evidence of vast undersea plumes of oil drifting for miles. This week, another team of scientists in the journal Science confirmed the discovery of a massive 22 mile subsea oil plume the size of Manhattan and, most dismayingly, very little evidence that the oil was being broken down by microbes.[...]
“They want everyone to think it’s over,” Charlotte Randolph, Lafourche Parish president said of the [August 4] NOAA report: “This week in Lafourche parish we had hundreds of barrels a day washing in.
Q: Does the EPA monitor BP in the Gulf?
A: Yes, but they use the data from a privately owned corporation called CTEH (Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health) that collects toxicology data and makes risk assessments.
Q: Who pays CTEH to collect the data and make assessments?
A: BP
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