The ExitCorexit campaign advocates three separate actions to ban Corexit dispersants, protect emergency responder and public health, and establish regional citizens' advisory councils. Combined, these actions will better protect humans and wildlife from toxic exposures during all-hazard disasters, including oil spills, by holding governments accountable to minimize harm and spillers liable for paying for the harm.

How? Read the primers for each action below. To learn how the current law protects governments and spillers from liability (paying for harm), check out the Liability Dodge Timeline after the latest news on the campaign.

• ACTION (1): Request EPA to ban discontinued Corexit dispersants from use in oil spill response, effective immediately.
• ACTION (2):  Request state lead agencies for oil spill preparedness and response with ocean coastlines (along the Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans, including the Gulf of Mexico) to take emergency measures to refuse to use discontinued Corexit dispersants, even if stockpiled and available.
• ACTION (3):  Request state lead agencies for oil spill preparedness and response and/or emergency management in the seacoast states to update area and regional contingency plans during the ongoing 2-year revision process by adopting the following three state-driven measures to ensure plans work as intended and do no more harm to people or the environment.
  • (1)  Establish Worker Health Monitoring Units with symptom-based hazard assessment within these contingency plans, as recommended by the 2023 Health and Safety Task Force, chartered by Regional Response Team 10 and the Northwest Area Committee;
  • (2)  Establish Public Health Assessment Units with symptom-based hazard assessment within these contingency plans, as recommended by the Health and Safety Task Force; and
  • (3)  Create a Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council as an independent support function for Area Committees as anticipated by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and recommended by the President’s Commission on the Deepwater Horizon (in Alaska in regions that do not yet have them).

To prevent use of existing stockpiles in the United States and globally, please JOIN THE EXIT COREXIT CAMPAIGN and take action.