Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Dead Tree in Mud of an Ash Pond By  Ansh Mishra  -  Own work ,  CC BY-SA 4.0 ,  Link News :  New!   E. P. A. Weakens Rule Governing Toxic Water Pollution From Coal Plants (Lisa FRIEDMAN, New York Times ; November 4, 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/climate/coal-ash-water-pollution-trump.html Coal Ash Rule Would Risk Putting Carcinogen in Water (Tim LUCAS-DUKE, Futurity ; October 7, 2019) https://www.futurity.org/coal-ash-rule-amendments-hexavalent-chromium-2178122-2/ N. B.:   A PDF link to the October 2, 2019 EPA Public Hearing testimony of Un-published new research discussing detrimental environmental impacts of Coal Ash by Dr. Avner VENGOSH, Duke University is available within the aforementioned Futurity article. EPA Moves to Scrap Rules for Coal Ash Pollution (Brandi BUCHMAN, Courthouse News ; July 30, 2019) https://www.courthousenews.com/epa-moves-to-scrap-rules-for-coal-ash-pollution/ Coal Ash Pre-Publi...

Reclamation seeks comment on proposed changes to its operations in California (Press Release, U. S. Department of the Interior-Bureau of Reclamation ; July 11, 2019) https://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=66903 Featured Publication: Reinitiation of Consultation on the Coordinated Long-Term Operation of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project (Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Mid-Pacific Region   Bureau of Reclamation ; July 2019) https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/includes/documentShow.php?Doc_ID=39186 Appendices A - E; F; G -P; Q -Z (Draft Environmental Impact Statement; Mid-Pacific Region, Bureau of Reclamation ) https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=39181 Earlier Documentation: Coordinated Long Term Operation of the CVP and the SWP  (2012 - 2015) ( Bay-Delta Region Bureau of Reclamation ) https://www.usbr.gov/mp/bdo/coordinated-long-term.html Website: Where Does California’s W...

Cymric Oilfield sire’s oil and water seepage has now reached over 1 million gallons ( 23ABC News Bakersfield ; July 25, 2019) https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/cymric-oil-field-sites-oil-and-water-seepage-has-now-reached-over-1-million-gallons Chevron appeals state order on oil leak near McKittrick (John COX, Bakersfield Californian ; July 25, 2019) https://www.bakersfield.com/news/chevron-appeals-state-order-on-oil-leak-near-mckittrick/article_1dfa6e0c-af37-11e9-8a3c-7b78f06c3201.html _____________ New!   Chevron Completes Cleanup in California’s Cymric Oilfield (Richard NEMEC, NGI Shale Daily ; October 14, 2019) https://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/119880-chevron-completes-cleanup-in-californias-cymric-oilfield State fines Chevron $2.7 million over oilfield leaks in McKittrick (John COX, Bakersfield Californian ; October 2, 2019) https://www.bakersfield.com/news/state-fines-chevron-million-over-oilfield-leaks-near-mckittrick/article_140e1af8-e568-11e9...

Drilling Deeper (Harrison TASOFF, The Current - UCSB Science + Technology News ; July 22, 2019) Featured Research Article: Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion (PERRONE and JASECHKO, 2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0325-z N. B.:  Abstract only! By Harshitha Kay - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Also... Dry groundwater wells in the western United States (PERRONE and JASECHKO, 2017) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8ac0/pdf Groundwater Depletion in the United States (1900 - 2008) (KONIKOW, 2013) https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5079/ Dataset for KONIKOW, 2013 https://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/sir2013-5079_Groundwater_Depletion.xml

Public opinion wanted by BLM for 2019 oil and gas lease sale in NPR-A (Gilbert CORDOVA, KTUU Channel 2 ; June 20, 2019) https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Public-opinion-wanted-by-BLM-for-2019-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-in-NPR-A-511577991.html Website : National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska [ U. S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ] https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/oil-and-gas/about/alaska/NPR-A By Bureau of Land Management - BLM Summer Roadtrip: Wildlife in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska , Public Domain, Link

Spill 35 miles west of Bakersfield spills nearly 800,000 gallons of oil, wastewater : BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — California authorities are preparing to start cleanup on an oil spill that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water on land about 35 miles west of Bakersfield... (KGET; July 12, 2019) Interim head of state oil and gas agency named; cleanup to start on 800,000 gallon spill in Kern County  ( The   Desert Sun ; July 12, 2019) https://amp.desertsun.com/amp/1719175001 Chevron steaming operation spills 13,515 barrels of oil near McKittrick (John COX,  Bakersfield Californian ; July 12, 2019) https://www.bakersfield.com/news/chevron-steaming-operation-spills-barrels-of-oil-near-mckittrick/article_c4850b30-a4e0-11e9-839b-87d356923109.html N. B.:   1 barrel = 42 US liquid gallons Video: Using Steam to Produce More Oil ( Chevron ; June 18, 2013)

'Bee friendly' pesticide cuts colonies by half, study finds (Sarah KNAPTON, The Telegraph UK ; August 15, 2018) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/08/15/pesticides-developed-replace-bee-killing-insecticides-also-damage / N. B.:   A complementary link to the featured Nature research article entitled "Sulfoxaflor exposure reduces bumblebee reproductive success" by SIVITER et al ., 2018 has been made available at the end of the aforementioned Telegraph UK news article. But just in case... Sulfoxaflor exposure reduces bumblebee reproductive success (SIVITER et al. , 2018) https://www.researchgate.net/journal/1476-4687_Nature/publication/327076594_Sulfoxaflor_exposure_reduces_bumblebee_reproductive_success/links/5c7902ec92851c695049ab43/Sulfoxaflor-exposure-reduces-bumblebee-reproductive-success.pdf?origin=publication_detail New generation of pesticides can reduce bumblebee reproduction (News Release,  Royal Holloway University of London ; August 14,...

Austrian parliament approves total glyphosate ban [ Agence France Presse (AFP) ; 02/07/2019] https://www.france24.com/en/20190702-austrian-parliament-approves-total-glyphosate-ban Austria becomes first EU country to ban glyphosate ( France 24 ; July 2, 2019)