Environmental

Air Pollution Levels from Deepwater Horizon Spill Similar to Large Urban Area

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2011.

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The Deepwater Horizon site.

The Deepwater Horizon site. Download here. (Credit: NOAA)

The amount of air pollutants in the atmospheric plume generated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was similar to a large city according to a new NOAA-led study published today in a special issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) and NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in Boulder,…

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