BP (NYSE:BP) Disperant Not Toxic Says Environmental Protection Agency

Although environmentalists have dishonestly said Corexit, the dispersant used to battle the oil in the Gulf of Mexico spill, the Environmental Protection Agency found in tests it is no more toxic than the oil itself in the ocean.

The EPA also tested eight other dispersants, and came to the same conclusion.

Paul Anastas, EPA assistant administrator for research and development, said the oil remains "enemy No. 1, not the dispersant used to combat it.

"I have not seen any evidence, any data, that has shown wildlife sickened or killed because of dispersants," Anastas said Monday.

Democrat Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts, you know, the same one that called the unproven theory that BP was behind the release of the Lockerbie bomber, and calling it "blood money," even though the British government and politicians have all said there is absolutely no connection.

Now Markey, trying to remain in the public eye by mentioning outrageous claims that the EPA ignored a federal directive to use dispersants only occasionally it dire circumstances. The EPA and BP have both claimed the use of the dispersants did decrease afterwards.

Markey is evidently a radical conspiracy theorist, who sees bogeymen behind every situation there is out there. The Democrats need to rein this guy in, or the Congress in general needs to have him step down from chairing the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee, which is giving him the platform to spew his bile.

So what is it? Did the Environmental Protection Agency and BP collude together against the Federal Directive or not? Is the EPA lying about it? That's what Markey contends.

Now I'm waiting for him to release the new information on the aliens in Area 51. Come on Ed, let's hear about it!

The EPA did say that ultimately the decision lied with government representative Thad Allen. So if the government put Allen and charge and he gave the okay for dispersants in certain circumstances, what is Markey talking about?

It seems what Markey and others are really angry about is the disperants worked, and made it easier for the microbes to eat the oil after it was broken down.

Now there is little oil to be found in the Gulf and Markey and those of his ilk don't have a big oil presence as a platform to show their faux outrage over the poisoned Gulf, which didn't come about.

It also seems Markey and others are outrage the Gulf of Mexico is great a healing itself. This wasn't supposed to interrupt the wanted narrative which never occurred.

The bottom line is the EPA found Corexit was helpful and worked well to do the job it was intended to do. That's too much for environmentalists and their political allies to accept.