Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Trump Administration Again OKs Oil Drilling in California’s Carrizo Plain National Monument : C enter for Biological Diversity: BAKERSFIELD, Calif.― On the eve of a holiday weekend and during a global pandemic, the Trump administration last week approved a new oil well and pipeline in Carrizo Plain National Monument. It would be the first well drilled in the monument since it was established in 2001 . (Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity ; May 26, 2020) By No machine-readable author provided. Antandrus assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public Domain, Link By John Wiley User:Jw4nvc - Santa Barbara, California - Own work , CC BY 3.0 , Link

Can Oilfield Water Safely be Reused for Irrigation in California? (News Release, Duke University ; May 22, 2020) Commercial Oil Field Water Holding Facility By Ramirez, Pedro, Jr, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - http://www.public-domain-image.com/public-domain-images-pictures-free-stock-photos/miscellaneous-public-domain-images-pictures/commercial-oil-field-water-holding-facility.jpg , Public Domain, Link

By NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel. - https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92266/the-meandering-estuaries-of-guineabissau , Public Domain, Link Selected Research Articles: Silver and copper as pollution tracers in Neogene to Holocene estuarine sediments from Southwestern Spain (RUIZ et al. , 2020) http://www.academia.edu/download/61910099/1-s2.0-S0025326X19308604-main_compressed.pdf Organic pollutants, heavy metals and toxicity in oil spill impacted salt marsh sediment cores, Staten Island, New York City, USA   (VANE et al. , 2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X1930877X Trends in Heavy Metals, Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Toxicity From Sediment Cores of the Inner Thames Estuary, London, UK (VANE et al. , 2020) https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/em/c9em00430k The legacy of industrial pollution on estuarine:  spatial an...