Is oil spill also fouling the air?
UCI researchers find disturbing amounts of certain gases above massive Gulf slick. More study is needed.
Janet Wilson, University Communications
Record levels of potentially harmful chemicals have been detected by UC Irvine researchers in the air around the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While the findings are preliminary, they illustrate a critical need for further testing.
“There are lots of hydrocarbons rising from all this muck,” says Donald Blake, chemistry department chair....
