Chalk up another environmental impact from last summer's Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Nine weeks of burning off oil slicks from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico following the BP spill released an estimated 1 million pounds of soot into the atmosphere, according to a study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/10/bp-oil-spill-pollution-air-quality.html
Article courtesy of the Los Angeles Times –Greenspace-posted by Julie Cart
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