The Unified Command of the oil spill clean-up response announced Thursday that some of the workers will finally be provided with respirators. This welcome announcement was tempered by the contrary assertion - also from the Unified Command - that the workers don't really need respirators. In a CNN story today, "Chris Coulon, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the Unified Command, said air sampling is being conducted and there is "no indication at all" that the respirators being distributed are necessary."
Apart from the obvious question of why someone from the Department of Agriculture is making pronouncements about the need (or lack of need) for respirators for oil clean-up workers, I really have to wonder again about what's going on out there. There are still major gaps in the publicly-available data, and there are still these contradictory pronouncements coming out of BP and the various federal agencies.
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