EPA launches website on oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon incident is set to surpass the Exxon Valdez spill as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. The EPA, the Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security are providing breaking updates and resources online.
Photo: NOAA We are taking every possible step to protect the health of the residents and mitigate the environmental impacts of this spill. For several days, EPA has been on the ground evaluating air and water concerns and coordinating with other responding agencies. We are also here to address community members — the people who know these waters and wetlands best. They will be essential to the work ahead.
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They need to put heating coils and attach every pipe up from the top to cover up all three holes with the tank that they made.
"so video can only be viewed if you have a special plugin which doesn't appear to work on the Mac." It's called Flash (maybe you have heard of it?) and its a slide show of images - the NOAA and USCG videos are Windows Media player. I agree it's light on info. You can get much more real time info by using this: .... More
