Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Rallies in Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara to Oppose Trump's Oil-leasing Plan for California : Environmental and community groups joined by elected officials will hold rallies this week to blast the Trump administration's draft plan to open more than a million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to oil drilling and fracking. (Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity ; May 20, 2019) Activists speak out against fracking on federal land in California (John COX, Bakersfield Californian ; May 21, 2019) https://www.bakersfield.com/news/activists-speak-out-against-fracking-on-federal-land-in-california/article_580160a0-7bf3-11e9-a498-27e9de1f7df5.html Hundreds bash Trump’s oil fracking plan in SLO:  ‘This battle does not end tonight’ (Monica VAUGHAN, The Tribune ; May 23, 2019) https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article230703244.html Santa Barbara crowd rallies against plan to open public lands to oil fracking...

UN chief concerned nuclear 'coffin' leaking in Pacific [ Agence France Presse (AFP) ; 16 May 2019] Runit or Cactus Dome - Runit Island, Enewetak Atoll Back to Bikini (Evan LUBOFSKY, Oceanus Magazine ; June 5, 2017) https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/back-to-bikini/ Selected Research Articles: Lingering radioactivity at the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls (BUESSELER et al. , 2018) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717328139/pdfft?isDTMRedir=true&download=true "The World, We Think She Start Over Again":  Nuclear Testing and the Marshall Islands, 1946 - 1958 (MEADE and MEADE, 2018) https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-18-30848 A Visual Description of the Concrete Exterior of Cactus Crater Containment Structure (Terry HAMILTON, 2013) https://marshallislands.llnl.gov/ccc/Hamilton_LLNL-TR-648143_final.pdf Frequency distribution, isotopic composition and physical characterization of...

Deepest submarine dive ever finds plastic waste in Mariana Trench : An American diver broke the record for deepest submarine dive ever and found something disheartening at the bottom of the ocean — a plastic bag. Victor Vescovo traveled seven miles down to the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific... (Karen GRAHAM, Digital Journal ; May 13, 2019) Also... Mariana Trench:  Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag (Rebecca MORELLE, BBC News ; 13 May 2019) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48230157 Video: Mariana Trench:  Record-breaking dive to the bottom of the ocean BBC News ( General News ; May 14, 2019) Deep Sea Challenge Expedition (March 26, 2012) A Dive to Challenger Deep (LUTZ and FALKOWSKI, 2012) https://marine.rutgers.edu/pubs/private/lutz%20falkowski.pdf James CAMERON's "DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D" ( National Geographic ) http://www.deepseachallenge.com/ 1960 Dive - "Man's Deepest Dive" ...

Notice of  Availability of the Central Coast Field Office Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement for Oil and Gas Leasing and Development, California [U. S. Federal Register,  Document No.   2019-09599,  Land Management Bureau (BLM) ; May 10, 2019] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/05/10/2019-09599/notice-of-availability-of-the-central-coast-field-office-proposed-resource-management-plan-amendment N. B.:  Public Comment Period for Document No. 2019-09599 will be available from May 10, 2019 until June 9, 2019 at 11:59 pm ET Featured Documentation: Proposed  Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement ( BLM Central Coast Field Office ; May 2019) https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/lup/67003/172408/209581/Central_Coast_Field_Office_Proposed_RMPA_Final_EIS.pdf Websites : Central Coast Field Office Oil and Gas Leasing and Develo...