Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

New!   Judge Dismisses Suit Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change Costs (John SCHWARTZ, New York Times ; June 25, 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/climate/climate-change-lawsuit-san-francisco-oakland.html Inside the Climate Change Lawsuit pitting Big Oil against San Francisco and Oakland  (Rachel BECKER, The Verge ; May 25, 2018) https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/25/17386758/climate-change-lawsuits-san-francisco-oakland-fossil-fuel-alsup How California Undercuts Its Efforts to Combat Climate Change (Kate WHEELING,  Pacific Standard ; May 22, 2018) https://psmag.com/environment/how-california-undercuts-its-efforts-to-combat-climate-change The Sky's Limit California :  Why the Paris Climate Goals Demand that California Lead in a Managed Decline of Oil Extraction. (Kelly TROUT, Oil Change International ; May 22, 2018) Courtroom Science lab:  Federal judge tutored in Climate Change (David DIEBOLT, East Bay Times ; March 21, 2018) https:...

Mike Stoker's appointment as EPA Region 9 chief met with mixed reactions (Razi SYED, Santa Ynez Valley News ; May 22, 2018) https://syvnews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/former-santa-barbara-county-supervisor-mike-stoker-s-appointment-as/article_3302c3fa-8ede-5543-9709-6bdfa3591b10.html EPA Announces Appointment of Mike Stoker to Region 9 Administrator (News Releases, U. S. EPA ; May 18, 2018) https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-appointment-mike-stoker-region-9-administrator EPA:  Calif. agriculture lawyer to lead Region 9 - sources (Kelsey BRUGGER, ClimateWire / E&E News ; April 30, 2018) https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060080373 Website: EPA Region 9 (Pacific Southwest) https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-9-pacific-southwest HVI Cat Canyon, formerly know as Greka Energy Oil & Gas, Inc.  Aera Energy taps Cat Canyon Oil project's environmental stewardship (Mike HODGSON, Santa Maria Times ; December 16, 2018) https://santamari...

NASA Satellites Reveal Major Shifts in Global Freshwater : In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have combined an array of NASA satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map locations where freshwater is changing around the globe and to determine why. (Press Release, NASA ; May 16, 2018) Selected Research Articles : Emerging trends in global freshwater availability  (RODELL et al. , 2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0123-1.pdf Satellites provide big picture  (FAMIGLIETTI et al ., 2015) https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt22b2836d/qt22b2836d.pdf Websites : GRACE Mission Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment  ( NASA ) https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/index.html TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer ( JPL-NASA ) https://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/ GRACE Follow-On Mission (May 22, 2018) ( NASA ) https://www.nasa.gov/missions/grace-fo

Crisis of Fluorinated Chemical Pollution Keeps Spreading, With No End in Sight : Two decades after pollution from highly toxic fluorinated chemicals was first reported in American communities and drinking water, the number of known contamination sites is growing rapidly, with no end in sight.[Press Release, Environmental Working Group ( EWG ) ; April 18, 2018] N. B.:   For more information on PFAs and PFOAs in the environment, please refer to " Blog Archives" for my former blog posts under the following titles and dates: CEC Spotlight:  GenX and Other Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAs) in the Environment      3/4/2018 PFA Contamination in U. S. Drinking Water affects millions      8/11/2016