Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Fossil Fuel Extraction on Public Lands Produces One Quarter of U. S. Emissions (Adam ATON, E & E News ; November 27, 2018) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossil-fuel-extraction-on-public-lands-produces-one-quarter-of-u-s-emissions/ Featured USGS Research Report: Federal Lands Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sequestration in the United States: Estimates for 2005 - 14 (MERRILL et al. , 2018) https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5131/sir20185131.pdf N. B.:   More information on an on-going Public Lands issue concerning Oil and Gas leasing within counties of Central California may be perused in "Blog Archives" under the following title and date: 30 day "Scoping" Comment Period for BLM Oil Leasing on CA Public Lands - Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura Counties                8/8/2018

Victims of Brazil corporate mining disaster await justice, three years on (The Observers, France 24 News ; November 19, 2018) http://observers.france24.com/en/20181119-victims-brazil-mining-catastrophe-dam Brazil dam disaster:  firm knew of potential impact months in advance (Dom PHILLIPS, The Guardian ; March 1, 2018) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/brazil-dam-collapse-samarco-fundao-mining Selected Research Articles: Metals and Arsenic in Water Supply for Riverine Communities Affected by the Largest Environmental Disaster in Brazil:  The Dam Collapse on Doce River (OLIVEIRA DE CARVALHO  et al ., 2018) http://www.orbital.ufms.br/index.php/Chemistry/article/download/1081/520 The environmental impacts of one of the largest tailing dam failures worldwide (HATJE et al. , 2017) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11143-x.pdf Fund ão  tailings dam failures:  the environmental tragedy of the largest technological disaster of...

EPA Announces Changes to Dicamba Registration (Newsroom, U. S. EPA ; October 31, 2018) https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-changes-dicamba-registration N. B.:   For more information on Dicamba , please refer to "Blog Archives" for my former blog posts under the following titles and dates: Arkansas Supreme Court Halts Farmers' Access to Dicamba and More...        4/27/2018 Impacts of Dicamba Herbicides on Agriculture, Environment                          3/4/2018