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Ban Toxic Dispersants

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Jude Forsyth
12 years ago

People first- money last

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Kerry DAncy
12 years ago

Please ban these extremely harmful dispersants that are being used to oil down into the ocean floor. The horrific effects on Human health as well as wild life has been fully documented.

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CAROLINA MONTOYA
12 years ago

PLS STOP USING TOXIC CHEMICAL DISPERSANTS

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Terry Stone
12 years ago

We are all the shepards of our environment and everything in it. Toxic chemical dispersants and all products that contain know human health hazards and/or proprietary ingredients from its product schedule.

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Dona Knapp
12 years ago

THIS IS GENOCIDE AND ECOCIDE.Corexit has been banned in UK and Europe.This stuff is making us sick....cancer skin rashes, nausea , respitory..the list goes on! dead whales,dolphins, Turtles, deformed shrimp, fish with tumors. This stuff along with greedy bp is killing our Gulf of Mexico!!!! I used to run a shrimp boat...before bp destroyed the Gulf!

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Walter Sikora
12 years ago

Too bad corporate profits always seem to win over human health concerns in anything to do with the chemical industry.

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Heather Dixey
12 years ago

De-list this Toxic dispersant.

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Bonnie Breckenridge
12 years ago

Since the EPA cares more about the chemical industry's profits than protecting the environment, we continue to see the increased use of dangerous chemicals. Corexit made the Gulf oil spill even worse than it already was since Corexit just mixed with the oil making it look like it was gone. The EPA is hollow and your corruption is killing the environment and harming our health.

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Dan Schoen
12 years ago

BP and the US government disgust me

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Anita Reyes
12 years ago Featured

As a friend from Alabama said to use toxic dispersants is like 'spilling paint into the water and then using paint thinner to clean it'. Again the clean up is only for cosmetic purposes. it's a cover-up, a means to save the oil companies billions in profits.

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Lucianne Cerecedes
12 years ago

How shocking this was to watch. Our government needs to step in and stop the use of Corexit.

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Beth Jones
12 years ago

Informed (& thus outraged) citizens are all too-aware of the tragic, continuing contamination caused by BP's reckless negligence in dumping thousands of barrels of Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico that were just as poisonous as the thousands of barrels of its spilled oil that Corexit woefully failed to disperse. But what the hell — with typically criminal negligence, BP just kept dumping worse chemicals after bad -- to the obvious, avoidable, fatal detriment of the Gulf of Mexico, its inhabitants of all species and the human beings who are still struggling to live and survive in this poisoned region. To keep BP & other Fools for Fossil Fuels from committing such idiocy ever again, the EPA must finally act to take this ecocidal weapon out of their bumbling hands!

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Julianna Shanaver
12 years ago

These are HUMAN BEINGS!!!! There is no amount of money or political agenda that should be put above the safety and well being of an individual! This non regulated issue is just another example of an ongoing problem that is threatening our environment, wildlife, people, and ultimately OUR FUTURE for humanity !!! We need to be LEADERS for HUMANITY and NOT FOR MONEY AND POWER!!!! What kind of WORLD will WE THE PEOPLE leave for OUR CHILDREN and OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN???

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Betty Billups
12 years ago

What is the EPA for if not to protect the oceans, people, seafood and wildlife??? Get your act together EPA!

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Pamela Craghill
12 years ago

Care about the country.

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Grey Lee
12 years ago

This seems like a good thing to do, based on the evidence.

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Virginia Dupuy
12 years ago Featured

The really horrible reality of this is that the local media is not reporting the ongoing, serious health issues. Big oil is running print and T.V. coverage. Locals do feel the effect of the $$ cost and availability of seafood but health issues are seldom reported on.

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TaylorA. Pancoast
12 years ago

The use of these dispersants, which in fact make a bad situation worse, should be made illegal. BP should be paying all of the medical costs for those affected as well a punitive damages and those responsible for the decision to deliberately injure clean up workers in order to make BP look better should go to jail and pay fines. This is a no brainer.

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Aileen Cheetham
12 years ago

Find another way.

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judy wisboro
12 years ago

Dear EPA Staff: It's bad enough that the ocean is not a bluer blue but a greener icky green. It's bad enough our wildlife are dying in droves . It's bad enough that the contamination from BP had a half an effort for it's unusual noncompetitive role in this ocean disaster and the excuses that BP would make any US comic on stage get everyone bellyaching in laughter but seriously folks I have tried to stay away from oil, gas, nucleic and now pesticide mix. What are we making here a molitov cocktail so that the next boat or oil company drilling for fossil fuel we don't even have to have a rescue of men involved in the drilling part they would be dead from inhaling the waters contents. It would be a recovery not a rescue effort. I will consistently be a thorn in your side if you continue to make the ocean not safe for anyone's pleasure not to mention those that have no choice but to endure it's contents. Stop this spreading of chemicals!!! Do you even know what you are using and what the contents mix will do with what is already in the water? You better not swallow the water or swallow at your own risk. Summer is coming and folks will come in droves to cool off hold off this new item to the mix before you destroy every living thing. Sincerely, judy wisboro