Just In: Another Loss for BP!

BP Loses Bid to Cut Maximum $13.7 Billion Gulf Spill Fine 
(Jonathan STEMPEL, Reuters; February 20, 2015)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/20/us-bp-spill-idUSKBN0LN2G420150220


'Missing Oil' From 2010 BP Spill Found on Gulf Floor 
(Laura GEGGEL, LiveScience.com; February 2, 2015)
http://www.livescience.com/49664-deepwater-horizon-missing-oil.html



N. B:  A link to the abstract of the research article discussed in LiveScience.com, and published in Environmental Science & Technology may be found here:

Using Natural Abundance Radiocarbon to Trace the Flux of Petrocarbon to the Seafloor following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (CHANTON et al., 2015)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es5046524




For more information regarding  BP and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Crude Oil Spill research, and Histopathology, please refer to Blog Archives for my previous blog posts on the following dates:

 July 15, 2014
June 13 2014
April 20, 2014
December 18, 2013


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