The EPA has been running various tests on the chemical dispersants. Tell me what's wrong with this item:
The EPA tests concluded that Corexit 9500, the dispersant BP has been using most in the Gulf, WAS "practically non-toxic" to fish and "slightly toxic" to shrimp.
If you said, "What the crap is 'slightly toxic?'" you're half right. Here's the rest...
Yet Richard Denison, a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, notes that the chemicals were tested alone, rather than in combination with oil.
Ah. Right. The oil. And have they factored into the equation the sheer volume and duration of the dispersant-oil poison in the water? Nope.