Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

EPA staffers, Trump official clashed over new chemical rules (Annie SNIDER and ALEX GUILLÉN, Politico ; June 22, 2017) http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/22/trump-epa-energy-chemicals-clash-239875 Trump EPA Weakens TSCA Rules to Favor Chemical Industry  [Jennifer SASS, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); June 22, 2017] https://www.nrdc.org/experts/trump-epa-weakens-tsca-rules-favor-chemical-industry One year and counting:  On its first anniversary, near term threats abound to implementation of our strong new chemical safety law [Richard DENISON, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) ; June 19, 2017] http://blogs.edf.org/health/2017/06/19/one-year-and-counting-on-its-first-anniversary-near-term-threats-abound-to-implementation-of-our-strong-new-chemical-safety-law/ New Toxic Substances Control Act:  An End to the Wild West for Chemical Safety? [Cory GERLACH, Science in the News (SITN) - Harvard University ; October 25, 2016] http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/f...

Big oil, small U. S. towns see new reward in old production technique (Ernest SCHEYDER, Reuters ; June 5, 2017) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-oil-carbon-idUSKBN18W0GP Risk Analysis for   CO 2 sequestration at enhanced oil recovery sites [News Briefs, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) ; March 28, 2017] http://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-stories-archive/2017/March/carbon-sequestration.php Selected Recent Research Articles: Fundamentals of Carbon Dioxide-Enhanced Oil Recovery ( CO 2 -EOR) - A Supporting Document of the Assessment Methodology for Hydrocarbon Recovery using  CO 2 -EOR Associated with Carbon Sequestration  (VERMA, 2015) https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1071/pdf/ofr2015-1071.pdf Carbon capture, storage and utilization techniques:  A critical analysis and comparison of their life cycle environmental impacts (CUÉLLAR-FRANCA and AZAPAGIC, 2015) http://ac.els-cdn.com/S2212982014000626/1-s2.0-S2212982014000626-main.pdf?_tid=6dc207d8-4a...