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Panel Says US Not Adequately Equipped to Handle Oil Spills
April 28, 2014
The National Research Council (NRC) says that the United States is not adequately equipped to effectively respond to oil spills, according to their new report.
Amidst a changing climate, this raises concern, given that the US Arctic Waters are more exposed to commercial activities such as shipping, oil and gas development and tourism. More response tools are needed to address such events, but not all of them are readily available.
For example, 25 years after the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, beaches on the Alaska Peninsula hundreds of kilometers from the incident still harbor small hidden pockets of surprisingly unchanged oil, according to an American Geophysical Union press release.