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The current air pollution episode in the central valley of California has intensified with both PM 2.5 and ozone in code red and code orange conditions as of 4-5 PM PDT.
Chico, CA is in code purple condition this hour.
In the last twelve hours, a regional PM 2.5 air pollution episode has started in the PA-MD-North VA-South NJ area.
The air pollution episode involves widespread Code Orange PM 2.5 air pollution. PM 2.5 are inhalable particles and aerosols that are 2.5 microns or smaller in diameter.
More below....
This story is breaking in the Chicago Tribune.... EPA political appointees force removal of well-respected EPA Regional Administrator Mary Gade after pressure from Dow Chemical Company.
Links and more below the fold.
Let's not forget that NAFTA also means free cross border transport of toxic and hazardous waste. The current example appears in today's Federal Register with a pending comment period on Mexican PCB waste coming to Texas.
It is amazing what you sometimes get in the Federal Register. During the Clinton Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned several then-previous common uses of the three specific pesticides -- pentachlorophenol, copper-chrome-arsenic compounds and creosote.
Today, EPA announces they are revising their previous risk assessments and seek to re-register certain uses of these pesticides.
We've heard over the years about a potential push for a NAFTA highway that would run from Mexico to Canada. I think this has been blogged by TXsharon on this site.
Today's federal register of EPA notices of draft federal environmental impact statements contains a notice possibly addressing this highway.
Ohio EPA just posted a Draft Permit to Install for the
"New Steel International" steel mill -- a greenfield facility- to be sited on the Ohio River at Haverhill, OH. This facility
is being rushed through by Ohio EPA to be built by MMK - America, a Russian firm.
0.91 tons or 1820 lbs of mercury emissions to the air per year.....considering EPA's Toxic Release Inventory for point source air emissions for year 2005 data (latest available), this source would have been the largest in the United States had it been operating that year.
Crossposted from Enviro-Mich Listserv;
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It is impressive how devoted the MDEQ Water Bureau
water quality planning staff is to the current Granholm Administration's goal of getting Michigan citizens used to living with dirty, impaired waters and violating the Clean Water Act in the process -- by being less worried through being unaware of dirty water problems.
While the Granholm political people, the top management in the MDEQ and the line workers in the Water Bureau would never
agree to it being described or cast in this way, nevertheless that is what is going on here with the year 2008 MDEQ Section 303(d) Impaired waters report just published on January 28:
Two prestigious U.S. Government federal agencies on the global warming issue -- The National Climactic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NCDC-NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA-Goddard) -- release conflicting statements about year 2007 global warming ranking.
What does agricultural runoff
and soil erosion do to the Great Lakes?
We know one thing for sure about Tuesday's New Hampshire presidential primary -- Barack, Hillary, John and the Republican's (now known as "Bunny ears," "Oily," "Sarge," "Carrot Face," "beagle eyes" and "Wrinkles" -- by the 9 year old blogger -- will all be breathing unhealthy PM 2.5 air pollution tomorrow.
The Detroit Free Press today released a revealing story concerning an inadvertent release of a secret EPA memorandum on how Dow Chemical delayed cleanup of highly toxic chlorinated dibenzo-dioxin/furan contamination of Michigan's Tittabawassee River and Saginaw River watersheds from Dow's Midland, MI facility.
Some interesting environmental news has surfaced today, some covered by the mainstream media and some not. Follow me below the fold for the details....
The proposed IBE Virginia ethanol plant, slated for the City of Chesapeake, VA on the Elizabeth River and on the border with Portsmouth, VA, bit the dust at 3:30 AM this Wednesday morning.
The City of Chesapeake, VA denied a required local use permit for the facility after a marathon 9 hour meeting and public hearing.
NASA's Earth Observatory just published a great satellite photo taken September 15, 2007 showing.....
I've got Phragmites on my mind! Don't know what they are?
Look here.....
http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/...
...and then start looking all around you in your home county
at wetlands and ditches....the moist soil where they grow and
push out nearly all of the other desireable vegetative species.
On July 24, 2007, I received an email claiming to be from an environmental engineering student at Tehran University in Iran; the individual wanted information about the process of how site decisions are made for electric power plants in the United States. Here is a copy of the email:
I answered with a helpful colleague to colleague letter:
Today I examined my web stats.....see below for information on the interesting spike of certain domains visiting my web site in the last 3 weeks....
Review of EPA's PM 2.5 air pollution site and other
available EPA data shows an ongoing and extensive
PM 2.5 air pollution episode in the Eastern U.S. that
started on August 1 and is present in its widest extent
today, Tuesday, August 7.
Extensive health hazard conditions from airborne particulate matter are also expected in MT and ID from current extensive fires there.
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