New Orleans - At a Dillard University Deep South Center for Environmental Justice meeting Friday, an EPA representative told a group of New Orleans residents dispersants, like the oil they are used to break-down, can have a detrimental impact on the environment.
The EPA said it's been in oil response mode since the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit sunk, testing for oil and other contaminants. The agency is using all-wireless mobile laboratories to collect air samples without even having to stop the vehicle.
Water samples are also being collected, along the coast. The EPA said with the mobile command centers that data is uploaded faster than ever.
"It used to be our folks go in the field, work all day, collect data go back to a hotel somewhere and try to find a way to upload it.. everybody complained that it took us weeks," said Samuel Coleman with the EPA's Region 6.
The EPA said it's deployed two mobile laboratories to Venice, one to Robert, LA where the joint information command is stationed, and one to Poydras, in St. Bernard Parish.
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