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Tar Balls from Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill: Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals (EPFR) Formation During Crude Weathering

LSU Superfund Research scientists Lucy Kiruri, Barry Dellinger and Slawo Lomnicki report finding environmentally persistent free radicals in tar balls collected from the Gulf of Mexico shores of Louisiana and Florida after the BP oil spill. Their research is published in Environmental Science and Technology.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es305157w