Tag: pollution
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It’s Raining Stormwater NOVs in California
Photo: Adobe Stock / Romolo Tavani For many California industrial facilities, above average rainfall brought 60-day notices of violation from private enforcers threatening to file federal Clean Water Act complaints. After many years of drought, in late 2023 and early 2024 California experienced significant rain. Indeed, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported rainfall quantities far…
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Lahaina’s Wildfire Burned So Hot That Many Dangerous Contaminants Likely Vaporized
USGS scientist Renee Takesue collected sediment in a drainage ditch in Lahaina’s burn zone. Samples are being analyzed by independent labs to ascertain the levels of toxins present and to provide data to help guide remediation efforts in Lahaina. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024) Scientists, state officials and the Army Corps of Engineers are finding the burn…
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Tijuana River: ‘on the level of the Flint water crisis,’ warn advocates
Photo: The Tijuana River sewage crisis has forced some beaches to close for the past 800 days and counting. For most of the past two years, residents of Imperial Beach have not been able to open their windows. Nor spend the day at the beach with their family. Nor send their children to a playground.…
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US Navy Acknowledges Rising Toxic Groundwater Threat at SF Superfund Site
Photo: A view of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard from the Lennar at the Shipyard housing development on Feb. 25, 2022. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) The U.S. Navy, for the first time, has acknowledged what Bay Area climate scientists and residents have asked the agency to look into for years: that in just over a decade, potentially…
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Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study
Microplastics and other pieces of rubbish in the sand in Lanzarote, Spain. Photograph: Susanne Fritzsche/Alamy Scientists express concern over health impacts, with another study finding particles in arteries Microplastics have been found in every human placenta tested in a study, leaving the researchers worried about the potential health impacts on developing foetuses. The scientists analysed 62…
