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Feds Colluded with Big Business to Keep Dispersant Ingredients Secret

BP's toxic Corexit dispersant chemicals remained secret from public as federal government colluded with oil industry

The Corexit cover-up is further evidence that we the people have a slippery hold on our own government. It's no secret among all but the most oblivious that the federal government has a much cozier relationship with big business and its concerns than with us.

The damage that the BP oil spill is wreaking right under our noses is appalling. But most people didn't ask just what the Corexit oil dispersant contained and how toxic it was. Thankfully some among us wanted to know and took action.

Unfortunately, the answer shows that a lot of irreversible damage has already been done.
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(NaturalNews) After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit, the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcement that deserve our attention: First, the ingredients that have been disclosed are extremely toxic, and second, why did the EPA protect the oil industry's "trade secrets" for so long by refusing to disclose these ingredients until now?

As reported in the New York Times, Brian Turnbaugh, a policy analyst at OMB Watch said, "EPA had the authority to act all along; its decision to now disclose the ingredients demonstrates this. Yet it took a public outcry and weeks of complaints for the agency to act and place the public's interest ahead of corporate interests."

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