Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

  Petcoke Pile Up Close , USEPA ; Link Watchdog alleges routine pollution at Port of Benicia (Scott MORRIS, Vallejo Sun ; October 6, 2021) https://www.vallejosun.com/watchdog-alleges-routine-pollution-at-port-of-benicia/?fbclid=IwAR0HGoL26XR6NUdNE8ra5E3zgsYc5AJnvXNPgQlNNlMdR4lR-S3zLuhpUlQ Public Tips Lead to Catching Fossil Fuel Polluter in the Act (Press Release, San Francisco Baykeeper ; October 6, 2021) https://baykeeper.org/press_release/public-tips-lead-catching-fossil-fuel-polluter-act Selected Publication : Petroleum Coke:  Industry and Environmental Issues ( Congressional Research Services ; October 29, 2013) https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43263/5 A Piece of Petroleum Coke , Divya BARAI ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Illustration:   NASA, ESA, Leah HUSTAK (STScl) ; Link Selected Research Articles: Predicting the abundance of copper in soil using reflectance spectroscopy and GF5 hyperspectral imagery (YIN et al. , 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243421001276 Retrieving zinc concentrations in topsoil with reflectance spectroscopy at OpenCast Coal Mine sites (GUO et al ., 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99106-1 Estimating the heavy metal concentrations in topsoil in the Daxigou mining area, China, using multispectral satellite imagery (YANG et al ., 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91103-8 Proximal and remote sensing techniques for mapping of soil contamination with heavy metals (SHI et al. , 2018) http://pdf.xuebalib.com:1262/cbuz5jYqbZpx.pdf Ecological risk assessment on heavy metals in soils:  Use of soil diffuse reflectance mid-infrared Fourier-transform spectroscopy (WANG et al. , 2017) https://www.nature.com/articl...

126,000 gallons of oil spilled along California coast in 'potential ecological disaster' (Harry BAKER, LiveScience ; October 4, 2021) https://www.livescience.com/oil-spill-california-coast Crews race to limit damage from major California oil spill (Amy TAXIN ad Christopher WEBER, Associated Press ; October 4, 2021) https://apnews.com/article/environment-and-nature-california-wildlife-wetlands-oil-spills-05cbeb962f42ae50590715fb3546d56c Huge ecological losses feared as Orange County oil spill hits wetlands, marshes (Ahn DOH, Robin ESTRIN, Jaclyn COSGROVE, Hannah FRYE, Los Angeles Times ; October 3, 2021) https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-03/fears-ecological-losses-california-oil-spill-wetlands-marshes Map: Where is the oil spill near Huntington Beach? ( Orange County Register ; October 4, 2021). Link Website: Huntington Beach Wetland Conservancy http://www.hbwetlands.org/index.php#&panel1-2