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Dispersants made gulf spill worse

IT COULD be a case of the cure being worse than the disease, according to a study of the clean-up of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill by two universities.

Noel Dyson

Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes in Mexico found the dispersants used to clean up the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf...

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