If a dispersant cannot meet minimum toxicity standards, then the dispersant should not be used on an oil spill.
We owe this to the communities along the Gulf Coast, but we also owe it to all Americans to assure them that we are prep...
I thank the witnesses for being here.
But there is no testing of any kind that is done about its toxicity or its health effects at that time by EPA?
That is why the National Contingency Plan explicitly states that having a product on the product schedule does not const...
It may be appropriate to differentiate within that list, and it may be important to have somebody other than the manufac...
Particularly when you have what the Administrator referred to as a real emergency going on, the time at that point for t...
So reforming that administrative process is something that is underway within EPA?
Let me, if I may, Senator, just add.
You found indication of endocrine disruption, but not scientifically significant endocrine disruption, or not a scientif...
And the reason we were told for that is because the damage to the cells is so immediate and so acute that you can't pick...
To go back to bioaccumulation, once you have combined the dispersants and the oil, and now it is being taken up by the b...
What are you doing to test for that, just so I understand?
To go back to what we do know about the dispersant that Chairman Boxer referred to, which has these characteristics of h...
It could be as toxic as all get-out, and it still goes on the list as long as it meets the 45 percent effectiveness thre...
But what a lay person would consider to be an approval, that this particular chemical is safe for use in these circumsta...
I can't think of another circumstance in which a regulatory agency approved something for use without actually coming to...
What is going to happen to this process so that an evaluation moment by somebody in Government takes place before a chem...
