Air tests from the Louisiana coast reveal human health threats from the oil disaster

[Triana]

The media coverage of the BP oil disaster to date has focused largely on the threats to wildlife, but the latest evaluation of air monitoring data shows a serious threat to human health from airborne chemicals emitted by the ongoing deepwater gusher.

Today the Louisiana Environmental Action Network released its analysis of air monitoring test results by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA's air testing data comes from Venice, a coastal community 75 miles south of New Orleans in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish.

The findings show that levels of airborne chemicals have far exceeded state standards and what's considered safe for human exposure.

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http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/05/air-tests-from-the-louisiana-coast-reveal-human-health-threats-from-the-oil-disaster.html

[Swamp Rat]

1. DEATH TO BP!

[nashville_brook]

2. k n r

[Angry Dragon]

3. K&R

I would imagine that you will see a huge influx of respiratory cases in the months ahead.
Putting a severe stain on medical facilities in the south.

Good thing we got that good health care bill passed.

[indepat]

4. Who on earth woulda' thunk it? Well, every one with a brain larger than a

pea, a lick of sense, and even a modicum of knowledge. Sadly, when the counting is done, we will realize some foreign company has dumped jillions of a lethal dispersant in the Gulf as cavalierly as a major world power dumped gadzillions of Agent Orange on those heathen gooks and has dumped gadzillions of DU all over the Iraqi landscape. Hopefully this is not karma going around. :P