Annals of global warming: Rio Tinto urges mining companies to act on Paris Accord
Rio Tinto mines metals, not coal. Still it's notable when a mining company threatens action if mining company associations do not act to enforce the goals of the Paris Accord, don't you think?
Supporting the Paris targets means advocating for the rapid phase out of coal in line with the latest @IPCC_CH advice on limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Catastrophic climate change will impact all industries, even mines.https://t.co/S6KdFpKNHI
— Elaine Johnson (@ElaineEDO) April 12, 2019
Tweet from environmental lawyer Elaine Johnson @ElaineEDO
According to the news article in The Guardian, Rio Tinto's position has been carefully worked out over the past two years.
Rio Tinto has signalled it is prepared to quit its membership of industry associations, including the Minerals Council, if it makes public statements inconsistent with Australia's Paris climate agreement commitment.
The company published a global statement on Thursday night setting out its expectations of the industry bodies it belongs to about commentary they make on climate policy.
It includes an expectation that Australian industry associations will publicly argue against government subsidies for coal.
The statement comes after more than a year of talks between Rio Tinto and the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a not-for-profit group that targets social, environmental and governance issues within large corporations.
Rio Tinto published its environmental statement, urging action against global warming climate change, in 2017. Another giant company using natural resources, urging the rest of us to be wise stewards of the Earth.
It's a start.
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Green New Deal, the actual text of H. Res. 109 (and S. Res. 59)
"People don't grasp the short-term consequences of saving the planet." Cartoon by Pat Chappatte @PatChappatte, New York Times Syndicate.
From CleanTechnica.com (with additional information added here from the House of Representatives official site):
1ST SESSION H. RES. 109
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.
Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ (for herself, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Serrano, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Velázquez, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Castro of Texas, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Welch, Mr. Engel, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Nadler, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Takano, Ms. Norton, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Lowenthal, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Levin of California, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Huffman, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. García of Illinois, Mr. Higgins of New York, Ms. Haaland, Ms. Meng, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Mucarsel-Powell, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Sablan, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Ms. McCollum, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Keating, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. Eshoo, Mrs. Trahan, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Kennedy, and Ms. Waters) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create
a Green New Deal.
Whereas the October 2018 report entitled ''Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC'' by the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the November 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment report found that—
human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century;
a changing climate is causing sea levels to rise and an increase in wildfires, severe storms, droughts, and other extreme weather events that threaten human life, healthy communities, and critical infrastructure
global warming at or above 2 degrees Celsius beyond preindustrialized levels will cause—
mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change;
more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output in the United States by the year
wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn at least twice as much forest area in the western
United States than was typically burned by wildfires in the years preceding 2019;
a loss of more than 99 percent of all coral reefs on Earth;
more than 350,000,000 more people to be exposed globally to deadly heat stress by 2050; and
a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the
United States; and
global temperatures must be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrialized levels to avoid the most severe impacts of a changing climate, which will require—
global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from human sources of 40 to 60 percent from
2010 levels by 2030; and
net-zero emissions by 2050;
Whereas, because the United States has historically been responsible for a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gas emissions, having emitted 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions through 2014, and has a high technological capacity, the United States must take a leading role in reducing emissions through economic transformation;
Whereas the United States is currently experiencing several related crises, with—
life expectancy declining while basic needs, such as clean air, clean water, healthy food, and adequate health care, housing, transportation, and education, are inaccessible to a significant portion of the United States population;
a 4-decade trend of economic stagnation, deindustrialization, and antilabor policies that has led
hourly wages overall stagnating since the 1970s despite increased worker productivity;
the third-worst level of socioeconomic mobility in the developed world before the Great Recession
the erosion of the earning and bargaining power of workers in the United States; and
inadequate resources for public sector workers to confront the challenges of climate change
at local, State, and Federal levels; and
the greatest income inequality since the 1920s, with—
the top 1 percent of earners accruing 91percent of gains in the first few years of economic
recovery after the Great Recession;
a large racial wealth divide amounting to a difference of 20 times more wealth between the average White family and the average Black family; and
a gender earnings gap that results in women earning approximately 80 percent as much
as men, at the median;
Whereas climate change, pollution, and environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices (referred to in this preamble as ''systemic injustices'') by disproportionately affecting indigenous communities, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this preamble as ''frontline and vulnerable communities'');
Whereas, climate change constitutes a direct threat to the national security of the United States—
by impacting the economic, environmental, and social stability of countries and communities around the world; and
by acting as a threat multiplier;
Whereas the Federal Government-led mobilizations during World War II and the New Deal created the greatest middle class that the United States has ever seen, but many members of frontline and vulnerable communities were excluded from many of the economic and societal benefits of those mobilizations; and
Whereas the House of Representatives recognizes that a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal is a historic opportunity—
to create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States;
to provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States; and
to counteract systemic injustices:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that—
it is the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal—
to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers;
to create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States;
to invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the challenges of the 21st century;
to secure for all people of the United States for generations to come—
(i) clean air and water;
(ii) climate and community resiliency;
(iii) healthy food;
(iv) access to nature; and
(v) a sustainable environment; and
to promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous communities, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this resolution as ''frontline and vulnerable communities'');
the goals described in subparagraphs of paragraph (1) above (referred to in this
resolution as the ''Green New Deal goals'') should be accomplished through a 10-year national mobilization (referred to in this resolution as the ''Green New Deal mobilization'') that will require the following goals and projects—
building resiliency against climate change-related disasters, such as extreme weather, including by leveraging funding and providing investments for community-defined projects and strategies;
repairing and upgrading the infrastructure in the United States, including—
(i) by eliminating pollution and greenhouse gas emissions as much as technologically feasible;
(ii) by guaranteeing universal access to clean water;
(iii) by reducing the risks posed by flooding and other climate impacts; and
(iv) by ensuring that any infrastructure bill considered by Congress addresses climate change;
meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources, including—
(i) by dramatically expanding and upgrading existing renewable power sources; and
(ii) by deploying new capacity;
building or upgrading to energy-efficient, distributed, and ''smart'' power grids, and working to ensure affordable access to electricity;
upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximal energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, including through electrification;
spurring massive growth in clean manufacturing in the United States and removing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and industry as much as is technologically feasible, including by expanding renewable energy manufacturing and investing in existing manufacturing and industry;
working collaboratively with farmers and ranchers in the United States to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector as much as is technologically feasible, including—
(i) by supporting family farming;
(ii) by investing in sustainable farming and land use practices that increase soil health; and
(iii) by building a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food;
overhauling transportation systems in the United States to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector as much as is technologically feasible, including through investment in—
(i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing;
(ii) clean, affordable, and accessible public transportation; and
(iii) high-speed rail;
mitigating and managing the long-term adverse health, economic, and other effects of pollution and climate change, including by providing funding for community-defined projects and strategies;
removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and reducing pollution, including by restoring natural ecosystems through proven low-tech solutions that increase soil carbon storage, such as preservation and afforestation;
restoring and protecting threatened, endangered, and fragile ecosystems through locally appropriate and science-based projects that enhance biodiversity and support climate resiliency;
cleaning up existing hazardous waste and abandoned sites to promote economic development and sustainability;
identifying other emission and pollution sources and creating solutions to eliminate them; and
promoting the international exchange of technology, expertise, products, funding, and services, with the aim of making the United States the international leader on climate action, and to help other countries achieve a Green New Deal;
a Green New Deal must be developed through transparent and inclusive consultation, collaboration, and partnership with frontline and vulnerable communities, labor unions, worker cooperatives, civil society groups, academia, and businesses; and
to achieve the Green New Deal goals and mobilization, a Green New Deal will require the following goals and projects—
providing and leveraging, in a way that ensures that the public receives appropriate ownership stakes and returns on investment, adequate capital (including through community grants, public banks, and other public financing), technical expertise, supporting policies, and other forms of assistance to communities, organizations, Federal, State, and local government agencies, and businesses working on the Green New Deal mobilization;
ensuring that the Federal Government takes into account the complete environmental and social costs and impacts of emissions through—
(i) existing laws;
(ii) new policies and programs; and
(iii) ensuring that frontline and vulnerable communities shall not be adversely affected;
providing resources, training, and high-quality education, including higher education, to all people of the United States, with a focus on frontline and vulnerable communities, so those communities may be full and equal participants in the Green New Deal mobilization;
making public investments in the research and development of new clean and renewable energy technologies and industries;
directing investments to spur economic development, deepen and diversify industry in local and regional economies, and build wealth and community ownership, while prioritizing high-quality job creation and economic, social, and environmental benefits in frontline and vulnerable communities that may otherwise struggle with the transition away from greenhouse gas intensive industries;
ensuring the use of democratic and participatory processes that are inclusive of and led by frontline and vulnerable communities and workers to plan, implement, and administer the Green New Deal mobilization at the local level;
ensuring that the Green New Deal mobilization creates high-quality union jobs that pay prevailing wages, hires local workers, offers training and advancement opportunities, and guarantees wage and benefit parity for workers affected by the transition;
guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States;
strengthening and protecting the right of all workers to organize, unionize, and collectively bargain free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment;
strengthening and enforcing labor, workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination, and wage and hour standards across all employers, industries, and sectors;
enacting and enforcing trade rules, procurement standards, and border adjustments with strong labor and environmental protections—
(i) to stop the transfer of jobs and pollution overseas; and
(ii) to grow domestic manufacturing in the United States;
ensuring that public lands, waters, and oceans are protected and that eminent domain is not abused;
obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous people for all decisions that affect indigenous people and their traditional territories, honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous people, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous people;
ensuring a commercial environment where every businessperson is free from unfair competition and domination by domestic or international monopolies; and
providing all people of the United States with—
(i) high-quality health care;
(ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing;
(iii) economic security; and
(iv) access to clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, and nature.
[End of text]
In the Senate, the companion (and matching) resolution sponsored by Massachusetts Sen. Edward J. Markey is S. Res. 59. It was referred to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (See more information in the Congressional Record, pages S1140-1142. Senate cosponsors are, "Mr. Merkley, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Gillibrand,
Ms. Harris, Ms. Warren, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr.
Booker, Ms. Klobuchar, and Mr. Murphy."
"What's actually in the 'Green New Deal' from the Democrats," The Fact Checker, Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, February 11, 2019
"The Energy 202: Green New Deal is already sparking debate over nuclear energy," Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, February 11, 2019
"As vague as it is, the Green New Deal could have a real impact on Corporate America. Here's Why," Viktor Reklaitis, Market Watch from The Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2019
"The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'Green New Deal' Wants to Get Rid of Nuclear Power. That's a Great Idea. – Nuclear power is simply too risky and complicated to supply our country's energy," Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, February 8, 2019
"A Green New Deal is the infrastructure plan we need to be thinking about," Tom Toles, Washington Post Opinion, December 5, 2018
"How to Design a Green New Deal that Isn't Over the Top," Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, February 12, 2019 (a very good critique, advancing the conversation)
Tom Toles in the Washington Post, June 18, 2018.
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Rachel Carson warned us; you thought it was just DDT?
Two hummingbirds in Europe in 2017; will these birds go extinct, soon, due to agricultural use of potent pesticides that kill the insects birds need to live? AFP image via The Nation.
Bird populations appear to be collapsing across France, after insect populations crashed last year.
Neonicotinoid Pesticides generally get the blame.
France? You mean where "deja vu" is the native language?
It's a serious problem.
Bird populations across the French countryside have fallen by a third over the last decade and a half, researchers have said.
Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, the scientists said in a pair of studies – one national in scope and the other covering a large agricultural region in central France.
"The situation is catastrophic," said Benoit Fontaine, a conservation biologist at France's National Museum of Natural History and co-author of one of the studies.
Some policy makers and scientists appear to have been caught off-guard by the dramatic decline in birds — but anyone watching to environmental news last year probably isn't surprised. In 2017, scientists and farmers noted the crash of insect populations, the food of the birds. 'Where have all the insects gone?' asked a news story from Science Magazine.
Of the scant records that do exist, many come from amateur naturalists, whether butterfly collectors or bird watchers. Now, a new set of long-term data is coming to light, this time from a dedicated group of mostly amateur entomologists who have tracked insect abundance at more than 100 nature reserves in western Europe since the 1980s.
Over that time the group, the Krefeld Entomological Society, has seen the yearly insect catches fluctuate, as expected. But in 2013 they spotted something alarming. When they returned to one of their earliest trapping sites from 1989, the total mass of their catch had fallen by nearly 80%. Perhaps it was a particularly bad year, they thought, so they set up the traps again in 2014. The numbers were just as low. Through more direct comparisons, the group—which had preserved thousands of samples over 3 decades—found dramatic declines across more than a dozen other sites.
Insect declines were written about in Yale e360, and in news reports from Science. In 2017 scientists and others pondered causes for the decline, with research tending to point at new pesticides used in farming. Severity of the decline was alarming, but few sounded the alarms about birds last year.
Chart showing the decline of insects worldwide, from Yale e360: "According to global monitoring data for 452 species, there has been a 45 percent decline in invertebrate populations over the past 40 years. DIRZO, SCIENCE (2014)"
These events are tragedies predicted by ecologists for years; it's a replay of the "silent spring" Rachel Carson warned us of in her 1962 book — but the effects are much deeper, and moving much more quickly than almost anyone feared.
Can anyone devise a plan to stop the insect and bird decline, and get it up and operating in time to save Europe's birds?
What if no one can?
"Where have all the insects gone?" Gretchen Vogel, Science Magazine, May 10, 2017
"What's causing the sharp decline in insects? And why it matters," Christian Scwargel, Yale Environment 360, July 10, 2016
"Germany's insects are disappearing," Gretchen Vogel, Science Magazine, October 18, 2017
Bird populations in the French countryside are collapsing," Agence France Presse in The Nation, March 21, 2018
"'Catastrophe' as France's bird population collapses due to pesticides," March 21, 2018, The Guardian
Tip of the old scrub brush to Guardian Environment.
'Catastrophe' as France's bird population collapses due to pesticides https://t.co/JXkufBI5E6
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) March 21, 2018
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110th anniversary of Rachel Carson's birth, May 27, 2017
Rachel Carson at Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania. USFWS photo.
Rachel Carson's birth anniversary in 2017 was remarkably free from attacks by DDT advocates or other people misinformed about her life and work.
Not that those attacks don't continue on other days, still, but that the critics did not use the occasion of the anniversary of her birth to gang up on news media.
Some of the nice things said on Twitter:
Today marks Rachel Carson's 110th birthday! Her vital contributions to wildlife conservation continue to inspire and guide so many. pic.twitter.com/JwhtoVvDMf
— US Fish and Wildlife (@USFWS) May 27, 2017
"Those who dwell among the beauties & mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." – Rachel Carson, born on this day in 1907.
— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) May 27, 2017
Over the years, Maria Popova at Brainpickings (@brainpicker) collected and republished quite a bit of good biography on Rachel Carson.
How the remarkable Rachel Carson, born 110 years ago today, catalyzed the modern environmental movement https://t.co/DduFDTJmFK pic.twitter.com/sdCGWlujAS
— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) May 27, 2017
For Rachel Carson's birthday, her stunning love letters and touching farewell to her beloved https://t.co/6v7idhNOva pic.twitter.com/NEdbFP6nyz
Celebrate Rachel Carson's birthday by learning about her & 6 other women who rallied to preserve the natural realm. https://t.co/js4xIwYKEp
— Audubon Society (@audubonsociety) May 27, 2017
Today in 1907: "Silent Spring" author and ecologist Rachel Carson is born. https://t.co/X9zPAXyOLT
— amhistorymuseum (@amhistorymuseum) May 27, 2017
The great Rachel Carson, born 110 years ago today, on wonder and why it's more important to feel than to know https://t.co/Y0K7LviHzv pic.twitter.com/J5D8wUthsk
One of my heros. Happy Birthday Rachel Carson! Thanks for your eloquence, powers of observation, scientific rigor, courage, & persistence https://t.co/fnl1VJ79Ut
— Jane Lubchenco (@JaneLubchenco) May 27, 2017
How Rachel Carson,born 110 years today,revolutionized science writing and revealed Earth from a nonhuman perspective https://t.co/lVqEzrxUqq pic.twitter.com/tdhvjTJ7zw
Rachel Carson was born on this day in 1907. pic.twitter.com/1Ngsghz1zp
#OnThisDay 1907: Marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson born. She is especially well-known for her book Silent Spring (pic @USFWS) pic.twitter.com/v3lBE8c1N3
— Imperial College (@imperialcollege) May 27, 2017
Happy birthday Rachel Carson, born May 27, 1907. pic.twitter.com/o0l2Fkif9D
— RC deWinter (@RCdeWinter) May 27, 2017
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it…" Rachel Carson pic.twitter.com/Yglbx24f8a
— Int Education Today (@IntEdToday) May 27, 2017
"Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself." Rachel Carson. Happy Birthday to you.
— Josh Fox (@joshfoxfilm) May 28, 2017
#happybirthday to #rachelcarson. The writer and conservationist who is credited with starting the modern environmental movement! pic.twitter.com/4kwzFDPzAY
— AmyPoehlerSmartGirls (@smrtgrls) May 28, 2017
Happy birthday, Rachel Carson! 🌊🌲💙#sciart #illustration #rachelcarson pic.twitter.com/jhC81I18pd
— Skylaar Amann (@SkylaarA) May 27, 2017
Rachel Carson escribió "Primavera silenciosa" denunciando la contaminación industrial y los peligros del uso de los pesticidas (DDT). pic.twitter.com/hFmeYFmqhw
— MEMORABLE (@EsMemorable) May 28, 2017
Celebrating the incredible #RachelCarson on what would have been her 110th birthday! (pic via @CleanAirMoms) pic.twitter.com/Eye7rGIweq
— Laurel Standley (@Laurel_Standley) May 28, 2017
Rachel Carson testifies before a Senate subcommittee studying pesticides, June 1963. (United Press International) pic.twitter.com/JoZYqEGMKi
— Matthew Booker (@MatthewMBooker) May 28, 2017
As of 8:30 PM Central, @EPAScottPruitt and @EPA have not recognized Rachel Carson's B-day. Forgot their roots. There is no Planet B A-holes
— MJ Mouton (@MJ_Mouton) May 28, 2017
And earlier:
It was such an honor to receive the Rachel Carson award. Thank you @audubonsociety and the #WomeninConservation! https://t.co/tFQymvRZxT
— Jamie RappaportClark (@JClarkprez) May 17, 2017
.@HeidiCullen is a recipient of this year's @audubonsociety Rachel Carson Award! https://t.co/IiPnffoQEm pic.twitter.com/dCwbUjQPlm
— Peter de Menocal (@PdeMenocal) May 17, 2017
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EPA intervenes to clean up mystery toxic dump threatening Texas county's water
Maybe EPA should take Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's advice, and go door to door asking who did it.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday the agency will work to stop a toxic plume of tetrachloroethylene (PCE) that threatens to contaminate well waters in Burnet County.
The source of the plume, and who dumped the stuff, are unknowns.
EPA's announcement:
EPA Adds Burnet Co., TX, Groundwater Plume to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
Five hazardous waste sites added, seven proposed nationally
(DALLAS – Sept. 28, 2015) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the Main Street Groundwater Plume site in Burnet Co., TX, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people's health and the environment. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country and converts them into productive community resources by eliminating or reducing public health risks and environmental contamination.
The site lies about one mile south of the city of Burnet between County Road 340 and County Road 340 A. A plume of tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, was found in the groundwater in this area during monitoring of the Bertram Public Water Supply in 2010. The source of the contamination is unknown.
"Texans understand how precious water resources are for families and businesses," said EPA Regional Administrator Ron Curry. "Addressing contamination helps alleviate the risk to the community and return property to economic use."
The plume released into the Ellenburger-San Saba Aquifer, and contaminated two public water supply wells and seven private wells. Monitoring indicates levels in drinking water wells are below EPA's health-based maximum contaminant level (MCL). Two wells that exceeding the MCL are used for irrigation and livestock watering. Exposure to PCE could harm the nervous system, liver, kidneys, and reproductive system, and may lead to higher risk of some types of cancer.
EPA regularly works to identify companies or people responsible for the contamination at a site, and requires them to conduct or pay for the cleanup. For the newly listed sites without viable potentially responsible parties, EPA will investigate the extent of the contamination before assessing how best to treat it.
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the enactment of the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the law establishing the Superfund program. Superfund's passage was a giant step forward in cleaning up legacy industrial waste sites to help ensure human health and environmental protection. The Superfund law gives EPA the authority to clean up releases of hazardous substances and directs EPA to update the NPL at least annually. The NPL contains the nation's most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites. The list serves as the basis for prioritizing both enforcement actions and long-term EPA Superfund cleanup funding; only sites on the NPL are eligible for such funding.
Federal Register notices and supporting documents for the final and proposed sites:
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/current.htm
Information about how a site is listed on the NPL:
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/npl_hrs.htm
Superfund sites in local communities:
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/index.htm
More information about the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the law establishing the Superfund program, can be found at:
http://epa.gov/superfund/policy/cercla.htm
More about activities in EPA Region 6 is available at http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/region6.html
Tetrachloroethylene is a commonly used solvent, often used in dry cleaning of fabrics and degreasing metal parts. The chemical is also known as perchloroethane, or perc. It was first synthesized in 1821 by Michael Faraday. It is volatile, but highly stable and not flammable.
EPA documents say, "Effects resulting from acute (short term) high-level inhalation exposure of humans to tetrachloroethylene include irritation of the upper respiratory tract and eyes, kidney dysfunction, and neurological effects such as reversible mood and behavioral changes, impairment of coordination, dizziness, headache, sleepiness, and unconsciousness." It is classed as a Type 2A chemical for carcinogenicity, which means it is a probable human carcinogen, but not a potent one.
Burnet County, outlined in red, covers parts of five different watersheds. EPA map
Burnet County is in Central Texas, in red on this EPA map
Texas asked EPA to help out on this one
EPA announced two other sites in EPA's Region 6, in Roswell, New Mexico, and Washington Parish, Louisiana
Burnet County's Daily Tribune covered EPA's action, with local comment
Profile of PCE from CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
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Annals of Global Warming: Warm the oceans, raise the sea level
Svein T veitdal is one of those rare scientists who can explain why science observations are important in effects on people in just living their lives. A good man to listen to (you can follow his Twitter account: @tveitdal).
Recently he sent this notice:
NASA Infographic: Sea level rise How much and how quickly? http://t.co/fgM2Q2sPv7 pic.twitter.com/0cOHveRckH
— Svein T veitdal (@tveitdal) August 27, 2015
Critics of the science of climate change and the work to slow or halt warming don't like charts like that. Sea level is something measured by humans, worldwide, for a long time. That's real data.
And it's scary.
T veitdal's Tweet was just a small part of a very large graphic from NASA, explaining the observations that tell us sea levels rise, how the observations are made, and what it means to you and me.
NASA infographic on sea level rise: We know seas are rising and we know why. The urgent questions are by how much and how quickly. Available to download, this infographic covers the science behind sea level rise, who's affected, how much melting ice is contributing, and what NASA is doing to help.
Yeah. "Your planet is changing. We're on it."
As Ban-ki Moon said the other day, there is no Planet B. We have only one Earth.
General science teachers, geology teachers, physics and chemistry teachers, history, geography and human geography teachers should see if someone at your school has a plotter and can print this thing out for you, poster size.
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Cute pictures of polar bears, masking tragedy
It came from @planetpics on Twitter.
"A beautiful picture of a polar bear cub getting a lift across the water from its mom!" Life on Earth/@planetpics
Couldn't help but wonder if that cub will survive the next few months, let alone to adulthood.
Generally, polar bear mothers den on pack ice, and the cub would be kept on the ice while the mother hunted from that platform. Polar bears can swim, but not well, and not far, usually. They cannot hunt while swimming. To eat, they wait on the ice for seals to come up for air, then grab the seals.
Lack of hard ice platforms, pack ice, means mother polar bears can't hunt to feed their cubs. While an adult polar bear can swim a distance to find ice, the cubs can't. And if the adult doesn't find hard ice, they perish. Long swims are deadly to cubs.
It's a cute pic, and we hope momma bear is swimming to an ice platform and can feed that cute little cub so it grows and flourishes.
We know the odds are against it.
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Doubt climate change? Here, have a cigarette . . .
From Smithsonian Magazine: The Colorado River Runs Dry A boat casts a forlorn shadow in a dry river channel 25 miles from the river's historical end at the Gulf of California. Photo by Peter McBride (Go see the entire slide show; spectacular and troubling images)
As John Mashey has been quietly but consistently warning us for some time . . .
From ClimateRealityProject.org:
Join us and stand up for reality. http://climaterealityproject.org – This film exposes the parallels between Big Tobacco's denial of smoking's cancer-causing effects and the campaign against the science of climate change — showing that not only are the same strategies of denial at work, but often even the same strategists.
If you watched that all the way through, odds are high you're not a denier. If you can't watch it, you really should think about it, hard.
More, and useful resources:
Annals of global warming: Arizona wildfires 2013 and the "new normal" (timpanogos.wordpress.com)
One more time: Basic climate science with Bill Nye (timpanogos.wordpress.com)
Discovery of Global Warming, at the American Institute of Physics (Spencer Weart)
Killer CO2 cloud (see especially comments)
Abstract of "Carbon Dioxide Poisoning," Toxicology Review, 2005
Industry's anti-global warming misinformation campaign reminiscent of Big Tobacco's strategy, Scientific Activist
Big Tobacco then, global warming now (desmogblog.com)
Canada: Welcome to climate change, Toronto (crofsblogs.typepad.com)
Pacific leaders look to link climate change and disaster policy (radioaustralia.net.au)
Climate Change Denial now available as Kindle ebook (skepticalscience.com)
The GOP's Creeping Climate Crackup. Don't Blame Us. It's Al Gore's Fault. (climatecrocks.com)
"Colorado River Runs Dry," Smithsonian Magazine; see especially the slide show, photos by Peter McBride
"Science as the Enemy – the traveling salesmen of climate skepticism," Der Spiegel (in English)
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Annals of global warming: Arizona wildfires 2013 and "the new normal"
A burned home is seen in an unidentified neighborhood west of Highway 89 in Yarnell, Arizona July 3, 2013. Reuters, via International Business Times
From a much longer story you should read by Felicity Barringer and Kenneth Chang in The New York Times, Tuesday, July 2, 2013, page A13 of the National Edition:
Since 1970, Arizona has warmed at a rate 0.72 degrees per decade, the fastest among the 50 states, based on an analysis of temperature data by Climate Central, an independent organization that researches and reports on climate. Even as the temperatures have leveled off in many places around the world in the past decade, the Southwest has continued to get hotter.
"The decade of 2001 to 2010 in Arizona was the hottest in both spring and the summer," said Gregg Garfin, a professor of climate, natural resources and policy at the University of Arizona and the executive editor of a study examining the impact of climate change on the Southwest.
Warmer winters mean less snowfall. More of the winter precipitation falls as rain, which quickly flows away in streams instead of seeping deep underground.
The soils then dry out earlier and more quickly in May and June. "It's the most arid time of year," Dr. Garfin said. "It's windy as well."
The growing season also starts earlier, so there is more to burn.
"The fire season has lengthened substantially, by two months, over the last 30 years," said Craig D. Allen, a research ecologist at the United States Geological Survey station at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.
The fire potential is exacerbated by the past policy, beginning around 1900, of putting out all fires. Fires are a natural way of clearing out the underbrush. With that natural rhythm disrupted, the flammable material piled up, so when it did catch fire, it ignited a giant fire that burned hotter and wider.
This total-suppression policy began to ease as early as the 1950s, when scientists began to see fire's role in ecosystems. It was completely abandoned nearly two decades ago.
But in the 1970s, the Southwest entered a wet period, part of a climate cycle that repeats every 20 to 30 years. "That wet period helped keep a lid on fires," Dr. Allen said. "And it also allowed the forests to fluff up."
Since 1996, the climate pattern, known as the Pacific decadal oscillation, has swung to the dry end of the spectrum, and the region is caught in a long-term drought.
Stephen J. Pyne, one of the nation's leading fire historians and a professor at Arizona State University, said, "How we live on the land, what we decide we put on public and private lands, how we do things and don't do things on the land, changes its combustibility."
In many landscapes, he added, "you've enhanced the natural combustibility" by building hundreds of thousands of homes in fire-prone areas, and for years suppressing natural fires, allowing a buildup of combustible materials like the "slash" debris left behind by logging.
The article explains how this is the dry phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation; so we can hope the wet phase will be wet enough to suppress fires. However, the simple fact of additional effects brought on by PDO does not mean warming goes away when the PDO switches phases. Note especially the lengthening fire season over three decades; incrementally, warming is making these well-known cycles, warmer, and too often, destructive or more destructive.
Sign welcoming visitors to Yarnell, Arizona, with wildfire in the background: "Elevation 4,850 ft., 'Where the desert breeze meets the mountain air.'" Sedonaeye.com image
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Stephen J. Pyne
Yes, wildfires are connected to climate change. Here's how. (treehugger.com)
Experts see new normal as hotter, drier West faces huge fires (climate-connections.org)
Experts: Expect Bigger, Fiercer Wildfires In West (huffingtonpost.com)
Experts: Expect bigger, fiercer wildfires in West (azfamily.com)
Wingnuts Just Terribly Offended That Anyone Might Link Wildfire Deaths With Global Warming (wonkette.com)
How climate change affected the Arizona wildfire (cbc.ca)
Burning Question: How Will Climate Change Impact Western Wildfires? (livescience.com)
West's wildfires expected to get bigger, fiercer (triblive.com)
The Southwest's Forests May Never Recover from Megafires (theatlantic.com)
Megadrought in US Southwest: A bad omen for forests globally. (e360.yale.edu)
Climate context behind the deadly Yarnell fire (azcentral.com)
Firefighter's final photo being used as evidence (azcentral.com)
Monthly values for the Pacific decadal oscillation index, 1900 – 2010 Black line:121-month smooth Data source: http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/PDO.latest (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Punchline too brutal for work: Why it is that environmentalists are the real humanitarians (a necessary encore)
I wish it weren't true. I wish people didn't appear to be getting stupider, less scientifically literate, and less knowledgeable of history (see Santayana's thoughts in the upper right-hand corner of the blog . . .). My e-mail box is filling today with notes from people claiming environmentalists want to rid the Earth of humans, urging that we should oppose them and let poisoning of our air and water continue . . . oblivious to the irony of the claim coupled with their supposed opposition to the idea. Here's the truth, in large part, an encore post from several months ago (I apologize in advance for the necessary profanity):
The fictional but very popular memes that environmentalists hate humans, humanity and capitalism wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't blind their believers to larger truths and sensible policies on environmental protection.
One may argue the history of the environmental movement, how most of the originators were great capitalists and humanitarians — think Andrew Carnegie, Laurance Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and all the early medical doctors who warned of the dangers of pollution-caused diseases — but it falls on deaf ears on the other sides.
Here's the 30-second response, from Humon, in cartoon form:
Facts of life and environmental protection – from Humon at Deviant Art
Tip of the old scrub brush to P. Z. Myers, and Mia, whoever she is. Myers noted, "Environmentalism is actually an act of self defense."
Environmentalists Press Obama In Heated Oil Pipeline Debate (eurasiareview.com)
Environmentalists and unions band together to fight CEQA changes (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
Enviros Urged to Reckon with California Voter Demographics (newamericamedia.org)
Developer, environmentalists reach deal on whales (boston.com)
Getting on the bus toward a sustainable future (newsobserver.com)
Wall of Shame; sites that don't get it, or intentionally tell the error:
Environmentalism and Human Sacrifice (nationalreview.com)
Scratch an Environmentalist, Find a Malthusian (minx.cc)
MESSAGE TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS: STOP POISONING PEOPLE! Grocery Bag Bans And Foodborne Illness: "Rec… (pjmedia.com)
1908 Rense cartoon in the St. Paul, Minnesota, Pioneer Press, celebrating Teddy Roosevelt's conservation of U.S. forests; image from Wikipedia, and Boundless blog
1908 Rense editorial cartoon of President Theodore Roosevelt as "A Practical Forester." Source: St. Paul Minnesota "Pioneer Press". Via GPO's Government Book Talk blog.
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Sounds of the Yellowstone in winter will haunt you, lovingly
This is a heckuva research project: What is the sound ecosystem of the Yellowstone?
Film from Yellowstone National Park:
The film was produced by Emily Narrow for NPS, with financial assistance from the Yellowstone Association.
From NPS:
Many people come to Yellowstone to see the fantastic landscapes. Wise visitors also come to experience the amazing soundscapes. This video provides some insight into the value of natural sounds in wild places and how the park is monitoring those sounds as well as the sounds created by humans.
Nothing matches the sound of a western river, to my mind. I love the sound of the tumbling waters, and it was on one of those roaring creeks that we scattered the ashes of my Yellowstone-loving oldest brother Jerry Jones.
Classic, vintage poster for Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming/Montana, USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Other sounds will captivate you. The rush and gush of the geysers, and the gurgle and plop of heated pools rivets you for a while. Once you hear the chuff of an interested grizzly bear, you don't forget it. And while it can be scary if you're relatively alone on the trail, the howl of the wolf tells you about the wilderness in a way no other sound ever can. The honks of the geese, the trumpets of the swans, the grunts of the bison, the scolding of the many different squirrels and chipmunks, the slap of a trout jumping out of the river — these are all worth making the trip.
After you go, these sounds will lovingly haunt your life. You'll smile when you remember them.
I hope you can go soon. (I hope I can go, soon.)
Sad note: Only 1,553 people have watched this video since last July. Can you spread the word a bit?
Project to improve access to Yellowstone Park through Gardiner entrance (billingsgazette.com)
Should National Parks Offer Wifi and Cellular Coverage? (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
Out of Bounds: The Death of 832F, Yellowstone's Most Famous Wolf (outsideonline.com)
Lawsuit to Help Stop Harassment of Bison Activists (earthfirstnews.wordpress.com)
What real public information about wolves looks like (thewildlifenews.com)
Yellowstone Association teaches in nature's classroom (billingsgazette.com)
Research sheds new light on wolves' impact on Yellowstone ecosystems (phys.org)
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Romney, and Sandy: Res ipsa loquitur
Have you seen this? Brought to you by Mitt Romney, the GOP 2012 Convention, and Sandy:
Res ipsa loquitur, a Latin term, used in law. Means "the thing speaks for itself."
Global Warming, Hurricane Sandy, Hubris,
Cartoon: Talking about Sandy (englishblog.com)
Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XLI (maddowblog.msnbc.com)
WATCH: Romney vs. Sandy (huffingtonpost.com)
"Big Oil reports massive profits during Sandy Cleanup," Grist
Update: John McCain's daughter, Meghan, tweeted a bit of support for working to fight climate change — so-called conservatives jumped all over her. No kidding.
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Endangered western forests: The Yellowstone
Additional CO2 and warmer weather will help plants, the climate change denialists say. That's not what we see, however. Turns out CO2 helps weeds, and warmer weather helps destructive species, more than it helps the stuff we need and want in the wild.
For example, the white-bark pine, Pinus albicaulis:
From American Forests:
With increasingly warm winters at high elevations in the West, a predator that has stalked forests for decades has gained the upper hand. It is mountain pine blister rust, an invasive fungus. Combined with mountain pine beetles, which kill hundreds of thousands of trees per year in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA), the environmental health of the Rocky Mountains and neighboring regions is in danger. To make matters worse, the species most susceptible to these two threats, the whitebark pine, is also the most vital to ecosystem stability, essential to the survival of more than 190 plant and animal species in Yellowstone alone.
First debuted at SXSW Eco, this video tells the story of our endangered western forests and how American Forests and the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee are working toward their restoration and protection for future generations.
Learn more: http://www.americanforests.org/what-we-do/endangered-western-forests/
Wyoming study delves into pine's impact on grizzlies (billingsgazette.com)
Exxon Facing New Lawsuit over Yellowstone Spill (insurancejournal.com)
Matt Martin: Wildlife surprises abound at Yellowstone (goerie.com)
Exxon Hit With New Lawsuit Over Yellowstone Spill (insurancejournal.com)
Oce Collaborates with Michelin to Help Preserve a National Treasure (prnewswire.com)
Whitebark Pine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Whitebark Pine, cones and needle cluster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Whitebark pine's distinctive, almost-black cone. (Photo: Wikipedia)
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Doubt, about the science of tobacco consumption, DDT, and global warming
From The Climate Reality Project.
(Yes, there is a bias. Several biases exist there simultaneously, actually, so we should say there are biases. The most important for you to know about are the biases for good science and accuracy, especially historical accuracy.)
How Rachel Carson Spurred Chemical Concerns by Highlighting Uncertainty (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
"DDT Was So Safe You Could Eat It" – And Other Killer Myths Of Modern Technology (theglobalmail.org)
The Sound Canadian Research Behind Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (activehistory.ca)
What is the Next "Silent Spring"? (nature.org)
Graffiti: BIAS (Photo credit: Franco Folini, via Flickr) (Creative Commons)
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EPA photograph exhibit in Dallas: Progress in environmental protection?
Let's see what history shows. EPA started a photographic record of environmental conditions, in 1971. Recently the project gained light again with help of the National Archives. Parts of the record are touring the country, and the display is available in Dallas for a week (photos added):
National "Documerica" Environmental Photo Exhibit Comes to Dallas
(DALLAS – August 7, 2012) The Environmental Protection Agency will open "Documerica" exhibit of photographs depicting environmental conditions of the past and present beginning August 7, 2012. The display arrives in Dallas after a quick stop in Austin at the Texas Environmental Superconference as part of its national tour. The exhibit will be open on the 7th Floor at Fountain Place in downtown Dallas through August 14, 2012.
One of the photos in the Documerica archives, looking to me to be from Texas, along Texas's Colorado River (I have no idea whether this is one of the photographs displayed) (From the Documerica-1 Exhibition. For Other Images in This Assignment, See Fiche Numbers 27, 28, 31, 32, 33.) (Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives)
From its development in 1971, "Documerica" became the United States' first serious pictorial examination of the environment. The project collected more than 15,000 images, documenting the environmental and human conditions of this country when EPA was starting its mission. The idea was to visually record the difference in conditions in later years, providing the public with a measurement of progress made to accomplish goals set by Congress.
Forty years later the project was rediscovered with the help of National Archives. "State of the Environment" launched Earth Day 2011 as an opportunity for the public to participate and engage in a modern revitalization of Documerica. There are more than 1,900 new images that have been submitted to EPA through Flickr.
The EPA photo project will continue accepting submissions through the end of 2013. Public entries will be considered for a larger exhibit of both projects set for March-September 2013 at the U.S. National Archives' Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery in Washington, D.C.
To learn more and to follow the project, visit: www.epa.gov/stateoftheenvironment
To match images near you, a selection of the full record is available on the National Archives Flickr photostream
Can I make time to go?
EPA's art exhibit is on the 7th floor of Fountain Place, this building, usually listed at 1445 Ross Avenue. It's between the Woodall Rodgers Freeway and Ross Avenue, between North Field Street and North Akard Street, Metered parking may be available; it should be a not-too-difficult walk from the West End, if done before the temperature rises above 95 degrees (as it is predicted to do each day in the next week).
The building that houses the exhibit is a landmark in Dallas, designed by I. M. Pei; fountains and trees grace the base of the building. If you're not a denizen of daytime downtown Dallas, it might be worth a trip to see.
Alas, the fleeting nature of the stay in Dallas means it will be long gone before any environmental science classes can be assigned to view it.
Fortunately the photographs are available on Flickr — teachers, will you let us know what devious assignments you make out of this collection of historic photographs?
Trying to feed livestock, farmers and producers are requesting the EPA gets rid of the Corn-Ethanol mandate. (investmentwatchblog.com)
Wyoming legislators oppose EPA pollution plan (billingsgazette.com)
U.S. business group challenges EPA mercury rule (reuters.com)
Senators press EPA to cut ethanol mandate (reuters.com)
Power provider loses appeal of EPA oversight (fuelfix.com)
Breaking news: EPA mining guidance thrown out (blogs.wvgazette.com)
MPIRG Applauds EPA's New Greenhouse Gas Rule (mpirg.wordpress.com)
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