Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Public meetings on DEIS to begin Monday : On March 25 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) begins a series of 9 public hearings on the Pebble Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). [News, Pebble Watch - Bristol Bay Native Corporation ; March 24, 2019] Updates: Army Corps denies permit for massive gold mine proposed near Bristol Bay in Alaska             (Juliet EILPERIN and Brady DENNIS,  Washington Post ; November 25, 2020) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/pebble-mine-alaska/2020/11/25/bc46575c-2f41-11eb-860d-f7999599cbc2_story.html __________ EPA clears path for proposed copper and gold mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay (Richard READ, Los Angeles Times ; July 30, 2019) https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-30/pebble-mine-alaska-epa-salmon Bristol Bay:  EPA Withdraws its 2014 Proposed Determination (U. S. EPA) https://www.epa.gov/bristolbay N. B.:   Docket No. EPA-R10-OW- 2017-0369 ...

A post from my personal website at c.meilinghamilton.com : Tectonic Plate Boundaries & Resulting Geologic Structures https://cmeilinghamilton.com/2019/03/25/tectonic-plate-boundaries-resulting-geologic-structures/

Trump might limit states' say in offsore drilling plan.  Here's how (Anna M. PHILLIPS and Rosanna XIA, Los Angeles Times ; March 21, 2019) https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-offshore-drilling-states-coastal-act-20190321-story.html Procedural Changes to the Coastal Zone Management Act Federal Consistency Process [U. S. Federal Register,  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ; March 11, 2019] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/03/11/2019-04199/procedural-changes-to-the-coastal-zone-management-act-federal-consistency-process N. B.:   All Public Comments for  NOAA-NOS-2018-0107  must be received by   April 25, 2019!   Featured Reminder... The 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill:  An environmental 'shot heard around the world' (Cheri CARLSON, Ventura County Star ; January 24, 2019) https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2019/01/24/santa-barbara-oil-spill-1969-envi...

Update :   GEOC   Abstract  Submission deadline for the 2019 ACS National Fall Meeting & Exposition in San Diego, CA has been EXTENDED until  March 25, 2019 at 11:59 pm EST! Call for Papers - 2019 ACS National Fall Meeting & Exposition https://www.environmentalgeochemistryissuessemi-monthly.com/2019/01/call-for-papers-2019-acs-national-fall.html

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the devastating Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which triggered the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster in Japan on March 11, 2011. A recent blog post link on the subject, located on my personal website, is provided below: 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Disaster & On-going Cleanup Efforts    March 8, 2019 https://cmeilinghamilton.com/2019/03/08/2011-fukushima-daiichi-disaster-on-going-cleanup/ USGS Poster: Poster of the Great Tohoku Earthquake (northeast Honshu, Japan) of March 11, 2011 - Magnitude 9.0 日本語:  マグニチュード 9.0 を記録した、2011年東北地方太平洋沖地震について解説するアメリカ地質調査所 (USGS) のポスター

First Comprehensive, National Study of Coal Ash Pollution Finds Widespread Groundwater Contamination (News Release, Environmental Integrity Project ; March 4, 2019) http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/news/first-comprehensive-national-study-of-coal-ash-pollution-finds-widespread-groundwater-contamination/ Featured Publication: Coal's Poisonous Legacy  (RUSS et al. , 2019) http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/National-Coal-Ash-Report.pdf N. B. :  For more information on Coal Ash and its detrimental effects on the environment, please refer to the link of my most recent blog post from my personal website provided below: Heavy Metal(loid) Contamination of Groundwater from Coal Ash Pits in Texas    (1/17/2019) https://cmeilinghamilton.com/2019/01/17/heavy-metalloid-contamination-of-groundwater-from-coal-ash-pits-in-texas/ Infographic: The Coal Ash Problem ( EarthJustice , 2018) https://earthjus...