Chasing Oil in the Gulf

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<h3 style="color:#666;">Chasing Oil in the Gulf</h3>
<em><p>By Mark Schrope
</p></em><p> <span class="dropcap">A</span>fter the tragic blowout at the BP Deepwater Horizon rig claimed 11 lives and began what many consider to be the most monumental environmental disaster in U.S. history, government agencies launched their largest response effort ever. So it’s not surprising that several people from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies were in the thick of the Gulf maelstrom. Some played visible roles in the government’s complicated and, at times, controversial response to the spill, others toiled out of public view, but all returned with stories of a summer like none before.</p> <p> When Paul Anastas took leave from his position as director of Yale’s Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering for a position as the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) science advisor, he had no idea what he was in for. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate just before last Christmas, Anastas had little time to settle into the job in Washington before the Deepwater Horizon event on April 20 captured the world’s and the EPA’s full attention. “I think that everybody’s heart just sank as we got an increasing understanding of what a tragedy this was,” he said, “the loss of lives, the loss of livelihoods and the potential loss of one of the nation’s most precious ecosystems.”</p> <div class="img left" style="margin-top: 6px;"> <img alt="Paul Anastas" src="http://environment.yale.edu/magazine/uploads/10fall-gulf-18.JPG" style="width: 160px; height: 145px;" /><br /> <span class="credit">© Harold Shapiro</span><br /> Paul Anastas</div> <p> The EPA would have to answer some of the most important scientific questions raised by…

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