Dispersants may break up an oil slick, sparing some birds and wildlife at the surface, but may increase the oil contamination for species that live lower in the water column. The toxicity of dispersants themselves is also a concern for cleanup workers and other wildlife. A group of Alaskans filed a lawsuit in 2020 to force the EPA to rewrite the rules to take into account research on the long-term effects of dispersants in Prince William Sound and elsewhere.

The oil likely will continue to encroach on Orange County beaches for the next few days, officials said.

In the Usin district of the Komi Republic in Russia, there was an oil spill due to the damage to the pressure pipeline.

The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope

President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency last Wednesday, several days after 21,000 metric tons of diesel leaked from a collapsed fuel tank outside the city of Norilsk.The pollution now risks running north into the Arctic Ocean.

Scientists report the latest data from the Upper Gulf of Mexico, and the results aren’t good.

Dozens of dead penguins and others alive but with traces of oil appeared over the weekend along the east of Uruguay according to a marine life conservation non government organization.