Unusual Spill Solutions: Oil Eating Bacteria

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 2, 2010

Chemical dispersants are already being used to cleanup the Gulf of Mexico, but what about oil-eating bacteria?

Richard Snyder is director of the Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation at the University of Western Florida. He’ll talk to us about the use of dispersants in the gulf and the potential for oil-eating bacteria on today’s Underreported segment.

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