Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011.
Black smoke billows from a controlled burn of surface oil during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A new study by NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) found that controlled burns released more than one million pounds of sooty black carbon into the atmosphere. Download here. (Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo)
During the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill, an estimated one of every 20…
