Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

New!   Public Overwhelmingly Opposes Drilling in Arctic Refuge (Press Release,  EarthJustice ; March 13, 2019) https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2019/public-overwhelmingly-opposes-drilling-in-arctic-refuge Administration moves closer to opening Arctic refuge for oil (Ellen KNICKMEYER, Associated Press/Washington Post ; December 20, 2018) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/administration-moves-closer-to-opening-arctic-refuge-for-oil/2018/12/20/5e4d8468-049b-11e9-958c-0a601226ff6b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.703aa0c628dc An unexpected agency weighs in on offshore Arctic oil drilling:  NASA (Elizabeth HARBELL, Alaska Public Media ; November 21, 2018) https://www.alaskapublic.org/2018/11/21/an-unexpected-agency-weighs-in-on-offshore-arctic-oil-drilling-nasa/ BLM projects "insignificant" impact from seismic work in ANWR (Liz RUSKIN, Alaska Public Media ; July 30, 2018) https://www.ktoo.org/2018/07/30/blm-projects-insignificant-impact-from-seismi...

Public Hearings:  Revised Definition of "Waters of the United States" (U. S. Federal Register, EPA ; February 7, 2019 ) https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OW-2018-0149-0002 N. B.:    " The agencies will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, February 27 and Thursday, February 28, 2019 , in Kansas City, Kansas." " The hearing will be held in the Wyandotte Ballroom of the Reardon Convention Center, 520 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66101. The Wednesday session will convene at 4:00 p.m. (local time) and will conclude no later than 8:00 p.m. and the Thursday session will convene at 9:00 a.m. and will conclude no later than 12:00 p.m." EPA and Army Postpone Public Hearing on Proposed New "Waters of the United States" Definition ( U. S. EP A; January 7, 2019) https://www.epa.gov/wotus-rule/epa-and-army-postpone-public-hearing-proposed-new-waters-united-states-definitio n Proposed Rule:  Revised Definition of ...

New Estimate Finds Less Fresh Groundwater In U. S. Than Previously Assumed (Brett WALTON, Circle of Blue ; December 13, 2018) https://www.circleofblue.org/2018/world/new-estimate-finds-less-fresh-groundwater-in-u-s-than-previously-assumed/ Featured Research Article: Competition for shrinking window of low salinity groundwater (FERGUSON et al. , 2018) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae6d8/meta Also... Preliminary Groundwater Salinity Mapping Near Selected Oil Fields Using Historical Water Sampling Data, Central and Southern California (METZGER and LANDON, 2018) https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5082/sir20185082_.pdf Water and petroleum well data used for preliminary regional groundwater salinity mapping near selected oil fields in central and southern California  ( Supplemental Material for  METZER and LANDON; July 24, 2018) https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5a735aaee4b0a9a2e9e1429d Brackish Groundwater in the United States (ST...