Ocean 0il Pollution Is Growing - And Not From Oil Spills

29 Sep 2022 | Abstracted from Grist

"..report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 'Oil in the Sea'...biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution...[is] fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related...is at least an order of magnitude larger than the amount from any other source.

"second-greatest contributor to ocean oil pollution...is 'natural seeps..."

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