The Stuff They’re Using to Clean Up the Oil Spill Is Poisonous

P’s oil isn’t leaking “four or fives times” faster than everyone thought—at a rate of 4 million gallons per day, it’s twenty times worse than BP thought. And the chemical they’re using to “disperse” it is toxic, too. Now the EPA has ordered BP to find a new, less toxic dispersant. (The stuff they use…

Obama Fails report card Bioterror Threats

President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address to unveil a new plan for a better and quicker response to bioterrorism threats and attacks, the White House said Tuesday. Government leaders will be told to rethink their plans for medical countermeasures so that quick, reliable and affordable antidotes will be available during…