New Orleans, LA – The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says regulators need to do a better job monitoring health hazards in the air over waters where shrimpers and fishermen are helping to contain a massive oil spill.
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson also said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday that the air quality along the Gulf coast poses no immediate threat.
Jackson says a chemical being shot deep beneath the sea that is used to break apart the oil at the spill site was tested a third time on Monday. The EPA has not formally approved using the experimental chemical undersea because it hasn't collected enough data.
Some 420,000 gallons of the chemical have been used thus far on the surface and in the three underwater tests.
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