Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

New Chevron Crude Spills Emerge in Kern County Oil Field (Ted GOLDBERG, KQED News ; October 15, 2019) https://www.kqed.org/news/11780057/new-chevron-crude-spills-emerge-in-kern-county-oil-field By Antandrus at the English Wikipedia , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link N. B.:  More information on the Cymric Oil Field spills may be perused in my former blog posts under the following titles below: Update:  Chevron Cymric Oil Spill reaches over 1,000,000 gallons .     (Posted 7/25/2019) Cymric Oil Spill 35 miles west of Bakersfield spills nearly 800,000 gallons of oil, wastewater (Posted 7/13/2019)

State considers new restrictions on use of toxic pesticide widely used in Kern (John COX, Bakersfield Californian ; October 16, 2019) https://www.bakersfield.com/news/state-considers-new-restrictions-on-use-of-toxic-pesticide-widely/article_0c0f669a-f053-11e9-99a4-7b10879c5467.html 1, 3-Dichloropropene (1,3-D):  Volatile Nematicide and Soil Fumigant (E)-1,3-dichloropropene or Trans-1,3-dichloropropene ( PubChem CID No. 24726 ) https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/1_3-Dichloropropene By Jynto and Ben Mills - Derived from File:1,1,3-Trichloropropene-3D-balls.png ., Public Domain, Link __________________________ (Z)-1,3-dichloropropene or Cis-1,3-dichloropropene ( PubChem ID No. 5280970 ) https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/cis-1_3-DICHLOROPROPENE By Jynto and Ben Mills - Derived from File:1,1,3-Trichloropropene-3D-balls.png ., Public Domain, Link Selected Publications : Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance (E...

Bay Area (USGS); Public Domain, Link Just posted on my personal website... San Francisco Bay Area Water Quality - Recent Scientific Studies https://cmeilinghamilton.com/2019/10/07/san-francisco-bay-water-quality-recent-scientific-studies/ “The earth is crying for people who make sound judgement and informed decisions.”                                                             - Sunday ADELAJA

Trump Bucks Protests, Opens 725,500 Acres of California’s Central Coast to Oil Drilling : Center for Biological Diversity: MARINA, Calif.— The Trump administration today dismissed protests and made a formal decision to open 725,500 acres of public lands and mineral estate across California’s Central Coast and the Bay Area to new oil and gas drilling and fracking. US government opens 725,000 acres in California to oil, gas drilling ( Associated Press ; October 4, 2019) https://www.apnews.com/22b2ffd26f6843f78182a169184a9663 Featured Publication: An Independent Scientific Assessment of Well Stimulation in California ( California Council on Science and Technology|Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; July 2015) https://ccst.us/wp-content/uploads/2015SB4-v2ES.pdf Website: Well Stimulation in California (SB4) ( CCST Project ) https://ccst.us/reports/well-stimulation-in-california/publications/