Unified Command gives actual dates for last dispersant use

It took them a few days - and a certain working of the phone lines by us - but Unified Command's press shop finally came up with its officials dates on dispersant use in the Gulf. A Coast Guard staffer at Unified Command gave us these dates: the last application of sub-sea dispersant was July …

Unified Command: BP “cannot remember” when dispersant last used

We checked in with the Unified Command press shop today, to verify that BP still is applying no dispersants in the Gulf. The staffer told us that no dispersants have been applied sub-sea since July 15. This jives with their response to us last week. However, the staffer (same one we talked to before - …

BP has stopped using dispersants in the Gulf – for now

We've crunched the numbers from the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command press shop, compiling their daily stats for dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico so far - and the official dispersant numbers for the past week are surprising: According to official releases, a "very small" amount of  dispersants have been used in the oil spill response …