Supplemental Environmental Sciences Bulletin Board - 12 December 2024
Elaine Hanford
Retired Professional Geologist & Environmental Scientist; Consultant & Freelance Technical Editor; Consultant Family History e-Search
Countries pledge to continue talks on global plastics treaty – lots of hot air, money, and no realistic outcome
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Texas farmers say fertilizer made with biosolids from sewage waste contaminated with PFAS forever chemicals poisoned the land & killed livestock
·?????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05122024/texas-farmers-fertilizer-pfas-forever-chemicals/
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Federal Government plans to build new port of entry at Alaska-Canada border south of Tok on the Alcan Highway – Alcan Land Port of Entry will cost estimated $180M
·?????? https://alaskapublic.org/2024/12/02/feds-plan-to-rebuild-alaska-canada-border-post-near-tok/
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VOCs from Pasco Sanitary Landfill leaking & causing groundwater contamination & indoor air quality in eastern Washington State – ongoing Superfund cleanup – cost thus far $75M
·?????? Superfund site:? https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=1001098
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Global warming alarmists are not done yet:? “Last year was the?hottest on record,?oceans boiled,?glaciers melted?at alarming rates, and it left scientists scrambling to understand exactly why.” - But do reveal their ignorance of climate processes
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Anthem BCBS now plans on limiting anesthesia coverage during surgery in Connecticut, New York & Missouri – Insurer to determine how long surgery should take – “cynical money grab” and “egregious” policy
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EVs facing the reality of a world without government subsidies
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Yellow-legged frogs almost wiped out by fungal disease are again thriving in Sierra Nevada – pathogen spread by human activity - frogs resistant to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis were reintroduced
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Technological hazard:? OpenAI o 1 called “smartest model in the world now” could fight back when it thinks it will be shut down – life imitating HAL in the 1968 move ‘2001 Space Odyssey’
Utah once again trying to take BLM lands withing the state – Wyoming & Nevada trying to get land turned over to the respective State
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FY2024 Performance Report for US Department of Energy indicates DOE is “breeding ground for fraud and abuse” as OIG “identified nearly $1biillion of wasteful spending this year”
·?????? Report:? https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/Fiscal%20Year%20%28FY%29%202024%20Performance%20Results.pdf
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$1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act was key component of Bidenomics – only about half that money has been “allocated” – questionable success & benefits - future of $42.5 Billion Broadband program?
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Update on $1.56 billion Kentucky Lock Addition Project on the Tennessee River – 19 years & still building
·?????? KY Project:? https://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Media/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheet-Article-View/Article/2939894/kentucky-lock-addition-project/
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State officials “deliberating” for 2 years & still at loggerheads on key future water use issues of Colorado River annual conference
·?????? https://coloradosun.com/2024/12/05/colorado-river-officials-future-water-use-barbs-water-conference/
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US DOE still dangling $750M for hydrogen hub near Philadelphia – “Don’t believe the hydrogen hype!”
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Flu-like illness outbreak in the Congo – possible case in isolated patient in Ohio who had returned from Africa – No reason to fear-monger and try to make this another global plandemic
·?????? https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/officials-continue-probe-dr-congo-mystery-illness
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Weaponizing “man-made global warming” – CO2 is part of a natural cycle & not a pollutant
·?????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-epa-makes-first-ever-climate-change-arrest/ar-AA1vp6Uj
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Proposed biochar facility in Moreau, New York, would process human biosolids (i.e., sewage sludge) & have adverse environmental impacts – “grossly disproportionate environmental burden”
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CDC warns fentanyl derivative called carfentanil is more potent and causing overdose deaths
·?????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cdc-warns-of-new-drug-more-deadly-than-fentanyl/ar-AA1voZYq
·?????? CDC report:? https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7348a2.htm?s_cid=mm7348a2_w#F1_down
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Humans are waging a (losing) war on rats & rat poison harms endangered wildlife up and down the food chain
·?????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06122024/todays-climate-rat-poison-harms-endangered-species/
·?????? Link to download EPA Report:? https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OPP-2023-0567-0116
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US F&W reward still stands regarding killing of two endangered gray wolves in Washington State - $10,000 per case
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Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant – estimated outdoor risk map
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Gophers helped restore ecosystem on Mount St Helens after 1980 eruption
·?????? Paper:? https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiomes/articles/10.3389/frmbi.2024.1399416/full
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Preserving and passing on recipes and legacies of traditional Diné foods in the Navajo Nation
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Oregon EFSC authorized largest solar farm in the State – erroneously calling it “emission-free electricity” since substantial emissions will be generated by extracting requisite raw materials, manufacturing necessary components, site preparation, construction & operation – will put “immense amount of agricultural land out of production”
·?????? Sunstar Solar Project:? https://www.oregon.gov/energy/facilities-safety/facilities/Pages/esp.aspx
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Population growth appears to follow Lotka-Volterra mathematical equations
·?????? Paper:? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4534218/
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Biodiesel failed – produces particulate matter when burned – conflict with raising crops for food – clogs engines
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Men who maliciously cut down iconic Sycamore Gap tree to stand trial – 150-year-old tree on Hadrian’s Wall was featured in Robin Hood & treasured by many
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Illegal aliens continue to drown during attempts to cross the Rio Grande – deaths near Eagle Pass have surged in recent years – bodies wash up in new locations
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Universities facing “enrollment cliff” as declines continue – declining birth rate, rising college costs (i.e., student loans), need for trades and craftsmen increasing – decreasing quality of higher education
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Brief history of “leaf peeping” in New England – Henry David Thoreau called October “month of painted leaves”
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US F&WS seeking public input on proposal to acquire property 22,000 acres near Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to bolster protections – Twin Pines Minerals plans to move ahead with mining on adjacent lands
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Cows, methane, Bovaer & Bill Gates – a combination that will not lead to anything good
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Increasing human activities in the Arctic – industrial activity lighting
·?????? Paper:? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322269121
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State ownership of now federal lands in Western US is direct path to privatization – states do not have capacity to manage lands on this scale – lawsuit is all about money
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Finland burying nuclear waste - $4 billion Onkalo project to seal off “tomb” for 100,000 years
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Controversial expansion of Gross Dam in Boulder County, Colorado – halting construction would threaten dam safety vs construction having catastrophic impact
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Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, desecrated by installation of fences
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Formaldehyde is detrimental to your health – reduce exposure in your home
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Hundreds of vials of live viruses unaccounted for at laboratory in Queensland, Australia – some deadly viruses
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Needless Biden deficit spending of $622 Billion over past two months – 40% higher than this time last year
·?????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/deficit-soars-as-biden-heads-out-the-door/ar-AA1vyPDp
·?????? Monthly Report:? https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2024-12/60844-MBR.pdf
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Successful massive eradication project for rats & mice on Lord Howe Island – ecosystem recovering – prior removals of feral pigs & cats – ongoing weed eradication program
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“Net-zero” is meaningless – “It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so”
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Nuclear energy is a “costly, time-consuming and ultimately futile solution” – environmental impacts & national security risks – each nuclear power plant requires massive amounts of high-performance concrete (and steel) – decommissioning generates massive amounts of concrete waste
·?????? Paper:?? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061824020804
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Some lands around Walker Lake being transferred from BLM to Walker River Paiute Tribe
·?????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/blm-to-transfer-lands-to-walker-river-paiute-tribe/ar-AA1vyKUR
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Run-off from heavy ranis transport largest amounts of fertilizer-derived nitrogen pollution to the Gulf of Mexico
·?????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01873-y
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International carbon markets are a disaster – achieve nothing & cause harm
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Final EPA rules under TSCA ban all uses of trichloroethylene (TCE) & consumer uses and many commercial uses of perchloroethylene (PCE or?perc) – chlorinated solvents commonly used in industry as degreaser - TCE to be phased out within 3 years & PCE to be phased out over 10 years
·?????? https://cen.acs.org/policy/chemical-regulation/EPA-bans-2-common-chlorinated/102/web/2024/12
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Increasing call for swift action by the FDA to exercise authority to recall vaxx
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Current “massive migrant crackdown” in Mexico – how long will it last?
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Circuit Court of Appeals ruled EPA unfairly denied Kentucky plan for meeting “Good Neighbor Provision” of the Clean Air Act – EPA changed criteria for plan evaluation
·?????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kentucky-wins-federal-court-case-against-epa/ar-AA1vC13e
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New York City moved up to second place in dubious annual ranking of top “judicial hellholes” in the US – abuse of ADA and RICO filings, “nuclear” verdicts, abusive food & beverage litigation and outdated Scaffold Law
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