Lessons learned from Deepwater Horizon

(American Chemical Society) This year marks a decade since the official end of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which leaked up to 5 million barrels of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, scientists have studied the incident's environmental and public health impacts. A new story in Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, describes some of the lessons learned from this disaster and how to address future incidents.