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Nearly 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants have been used in the Gulf of Mexico to break up the gushing oil. This is the first time they have been used below the ocean surface, as much as a mile deep at the broken well. Many of the country’s leading
Nearly 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants have been applied to the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the BP oil leak. Host Jeff Young reports that many of the country’s leading marine scientists have signed a consensus statement against the use of dispersants on that scale.