But beachgoers faced a viscous mess that started Saturday: Tar balls, accumulations of a sticky black material, dotting the coast. The U.S. Coast Guard reported the tar balls in a post on X ...

Also known as tar snakes, these are often seen as one or more black, squiggly lines that can pop up everywhere from roads and parking lots to residential driveways. Tar snakes are made with an ...

These include tartrazine, carmoisine red (E122) and brilliant black (E151), while artificial ... now be derived from oil. Coal-tar is old-fashioned emotive stuff.” As for saccharin, the ...