New study ups remaining oil estimate

A team of Georgia researchers using government data estimates that as much as 79 percent of the oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon well remains at large in the Gulf of Mexico. The estimate is by researchers with the University of Georgia and Georgia Sea Grant. Two weeks ago the federal government issued a report saying three quarters of the oil had been captured, burned, dispersed, evaporated, degraded or dissolved in the water. The Georgia report, unlike the federal analysis, was not subject to peer review. (Source: New York Times, USA Today, 08/17/10)