Image credit: Oliver Bernstein, Sierra Club. With media coverage of the country’s worst oil spill fading away, recent decisions on how to handle tens of thousands of tons of boom and oily waste are going to affect people along the Gulf for years to come. That’s because BP is relying on public complacency to get away with dumping its clean-up waste in local landfills , where hazardous oily residues and chemicals, like benzene, will either slowly slither their way into nearby water streams or evaporate and affect air quality. While this pl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
