By way of example in the spill case, Mr. Feinberg takes up the perhaps apocryphal report of a strip club in New Orleans that filed a claim for business losses because fishermen can no longer afford the entertainment.
Persistent buried oil has been found in other spills, for example, the Florida spill in a saltmarsh in Falmouth, MA.
Such membranes might be used in cleaning up an oil spill, for example, or for water purification.
"The script is written and rewritten for you every day -- the oil spill, for example," said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama's senior adviser.
Around the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill, for example, some noted that the environmental impact of the "disaster" was looking less catastrophic than people had initially predicted.
The adjective toxic applies more broadly, to any poison, and may be useful in a headline about a substance that is not a toxin: Toxic Spill, for example.
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill, for example, demonstrates how a major oil company was suddenly faced with society's valuations of marine and coastal ecosystems, and forced to internalise the costs of environmental damage.
Gupta's material, in the 2007 "Spill," for example, take the common-man's tin dishware and make it not only glamourous but tarnished.
James Stafford: Are you suggesting such a technology could have played a role in cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, for example?
Highly porous, ultralight solids such as this have many possible applications beyond mopping up oil spills – for example as electrodes in high-power rechargeable batteries, or protection against extreme heat, or for detecting gas pollutants.
