Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

7,000 gallons of sewage from San Onofre nuclear plant spills a mile into the ocean (Rob NIKOLEWSKI, San Diego Union-Tribune ; March 27, 2020) https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/story/2020-03-27/songs-sewage-release San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (Image:  Jelson25 ;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en )

Idle Oil Well in Coalinga Oil Field - Fresno County, CA  (Image:  Antandrus;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en ) Deserted oil wells haunt Los Angeles with toxic fumes and enormous cleanup costs (Mark OLALDE and Ryan MENEZES, Los Angeles Times ; March 5, 2020) https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-03-05/deserted-oil-wells-los-angeles-toxic-fumes-cleanup-costs The toxic legacy of old oil wells:  California’s multibillion-dollar problem (Mark OLALDE and Ryan MENEZES,  Los Angeles Times ; February 6, 2020) https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-oil-well-drilling-idle-cleanup/ Report:  $550 Million Needed to Plug Abandoned California Oil, Gas Wells (Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity ; January 24, 2020) https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/report-550-million-needed-plug-abandoned-california-oil-gas-wells-2020-01-24/ (Image:   Wikimedia Commons - P...

Oil leak resumes near McKittrick (John COX, Bakersfield Californian ; March 2, 2020) https://www.bakersfield.com/news/oil-leak-resumes-near-mckittrick/article_08f341b4-5ce3-11ea-b4c5-478e1e3925a5.html By Antandrus at the English Wikipedia , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link