Following a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River, emergency response crews employed the new pom-pom method to quickly determine the locations of large oil patches on the river floor.

Following a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River, emergency response crews employed the new pom-pom method to quickly determine the locations of large oil patches on the river floor.

For today's Newsweek Rewind, we feature the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which occurred 25 years ago, on March 24, 1989. ... oil "mops" with more absorbent polypropylene pom-poms, ...

They're called pom poms and socks and the oil that's on the surface of the water adheres to them and then when we remove those materials, it takes the oil out of the water." Soil also contaminated ...

Workers bag oil-collecting pom-poms in Barataria Bay, La., with absorbent tubes at their feet. According to National Geographic, the cleanup had generated almost 40,000 tons of solid waste by the ...