Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

From my personal website on Environmental Geochemistry Issues at cmeilinghamilton.com: "Toxic Legacy" - Arsenic Pollution from Salsigne Gold Mine; Aude, FRANCE https://cmeilinghamilton.com/2019/04/28/toxic-legacy-arsenic-pollution-from-salsigne-gold-mine-waste-aude-france/ Puits Castan et village de Villanière  ( Image :  Raoul RIVES, 20 November 2014;   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 )

Interactive Map: Tracking Nonstick Chemical Pollution Across the U.S. : The latest update of an interactive map by EWG and the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University documents publicly known PFAS pollution from 91 sites in 22 states. Update:  Mapping the Expanding PFAS Crisis [Bill WALKER, Environmental Working Group (EWG); April 18, 2019] https://www.ewg.org/research/update-mapping-expanding-pfas-crisis N. B.:   More information on PFAs may be perused within my former March 4, 2018 blog post under the following title: CEC Spotlight:  GenX and other Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAs) in the Environment

Draft Interim Recommendations for Addressing Groundwater Contaminated by PFAS and PFOS ( U. S. EPA;  April 25, 2019) https://www.epa.gov/pfas/draft-interim-recommendations-addressing-groundwater-contaminated-pfoa-and-pfos Draft Interim Recommendations for Addressing Groundwater Contaminated by PFAS and PFOS (Regulations.gov) https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OLEM-2019-0229 N. B.:   Public Comment link is available at the aforementioned Regulations.gov site. Public Comments on  EPA-HQ-OLEM-2019-0229  will be accepted from  April 25, 2019 - June 10, 2019 at 11:59 ET    Featured Documentation: Draft Interim Recommendation to Address Groundwater Contaminated with Perfluorooctanic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate ( EPA-HQ-OLEM-2019-0229 ,  U. S. EPA ; April 24, 2019) https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-04/documents/draft_interim_recommendations_for_addressing_groundwater_contaminated_with_pfoa_and_pfos...

New!   Trump plans to allow fracking near California's National Parks (Gabrielle CANON, The Guardian ; April 26, 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/26/trump-plans-to-allow-fracking-near-californias-national-parks BLM Bakersfield seeks public comments on draft hydraulic fracturing impacts analysis (New Release, Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office ; April 25, 2019) https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/100601/171510/208545/Press_Release_-_April_25,_2019.pdf Notice of Availability of the Bakersfield Field Office Hydraulic Fracturing Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, California (FR Doc. 2019-08282,  Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management ; April 25, 2019) https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/100601/171509/208525/2019-08282_Federal_Register_Notice_of_Availability.pdf Notice of Availability of the Bakersfield Field Office Hydraulic Fracturing Draft Supplemental E...

Trump administration sidelines offshore drilling plan - WSJ (Valerie VOLCOVICI,  THOMSON REUTERS Foundation News ; April 25, 2019) http://news.trust.org//item/20190425163030-3w7ti/ Trump's Arctic Oil Drilling Edict Blocked by Federal Judge (Jennifer A. DLOUHY and Kartikay MEHROTRA, Bloomberg News ; March 30, 2019) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-30/trump-s-arctic-oil-drilling-plan-is-shelved-by-federal-judge Trump's Order to Open Arctic Waters to Oil Drilling Was Unlawful, Federal Judge Finds (Coral DAVENPORT, New York Times ; March 30, 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/climate/trump-oil-drilling-arctic.html Also... Trump policy of less safety and more offshore drilling is a 'recipe for disaster' (Oliver MILMAN, The Guardian; April 18, 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/18/offshore-drilling-trump-administration-safety-oil-spills Deepwater Horizon Offshore Drilling Unit on Fire   ( U. S. Coast Guard , 201...

California Water Board Finds Oil-industry Contaminants in Water Wells : Center for Biological Diversity: Fracking Near Protected Groundwater Increasing in California (Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity ; April 11, 2019) Featured Report: 2018 Annual Performance Report:  Model Criteria for Groundwater Monitoring in Areas of Oil and Gas Well Stimulation ( California State Water Resources Board ; April 5, 2019) https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/groundwater/sb4/docs/2018_performance_measures.pdf Also... Prioritization of Oil and Gas Fields for Regional Groundwater Monitoring Based on Preliminary Assessment of Petroleum Resource Development and Proximity to California's Groundwater Resources (DAVIS et al. , 2018) https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5065/sir20185065_.pdf Model Criteria for Groundwater Monitoring in Areas of Oil and Gas Well Stimulation (Resolution No. 2015-0047, California State Water Resources Board ;  Adopted July 7, 20...

Mercury pollution from decades past may have been re-released by Tasmania's bushfires (Larissa SCHNEIDER, Kathryn ALLEN and Simon HABERLE, The Conversation ; April 7, 2019) https://theconversation.com/mercury-pollution-from-decades-past-may-have-been-re-released-by-tasmanias-bushfires-114603 Selected Research Articles*: Using tree rings to track atmospheric mercury pollution in Australia:  the legacy of mining in Tasmania (SCHNEIDER et al. , 2019) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.8b06712 Assessment of the Suitability of Tree Rings as Archives of Global and Regional Atmospheric Pollution (PECKHAM et al. , 2019) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.8b06786 (*) = Abstracts only! Websites: Dendrochronology:  What Tree Rings Tell Us About Past and Present (Matthew MASON, Environmentalscience.org ) https://www.environmentalscience.org/dendrochronology-tree-rings-tell-us