This article is an excerpt from the Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization’s Science and Technology Committee research paper entitled:

A Call for a Twenty-First Century Solution in Oil Spill Response. While it is recommended that the complete research paper is studied, this excerpt is being made widely available as vital information for educational purposes.

Critical to optimizing environmental protection systems and public policy, LAEO offers solutions and recommendations to technologically advance oil spill response and maritime pollution protections in order to help educate oil spill response professionals on best-system options. This manuscript is intended to help all environmental stakeholders to collaboratively protect and preserve our waters and Earth ecosystems that are subject to oil and/or other hazardous chemical spills.