EPA Administrator Goes to Louisiana as BP Battles Oil Spill - BusinessWeek

May 23 (Bloomberg) -- The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will visit Louisiana today as the government continues to monitor BP Plc’s use of chemicals to try to stem the impact of oil leaking from a Gulf of Mexico well.

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Administrator Lisa Jackson is scheduled to visit the oil- spill command center in Robert, Louisiana, as well as Venice and New Orleans, the EPA said in a statement yesterday. The agency said it is working with BP over the choice of chemicals, known as dispersants, that have been used in the Gulf to break up the oil and minimize its impact on the coasts. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plan to be in Louisiana tomorrow with a group of senators to inspect the spill response. President Barack Obama yesterday named Democrat Bob Graham, a former Florida governor, and Republican William Reilly, a former EPA administrator, to lead a commission to investigate the spill.

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