Groups Urge EPA To Expand Contingency Fixes To Address Tar Sands Spill Response

Environmental groups plan to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to expand its ongoing revision of its National Contingency Plan (NCP) oil spill regulations to address responses to both conventional oil spills that the agency was already examining as well as spills of unconventional fuels, such as tar sands oil and volatile shale oil – a push that occurs partly because of concerns about chemical-related health risks to workers in oil spill response.