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Category: Water Quality
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Gallup reports: "Concern About Several Environmental Problems Dips in U.S." Here's the evidence. So, I downloaded the data, redrew the graphs, added trendlines, then deleted the original data to better suss out the underlying trends without all the confusing squiggly lines. Here you go. Oh, and I gave it a new title: No Obvious Conclusion…
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I just finished reading Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast. Here's my book review (from the view of an Environmental Economist of course). The Fishermen and the Dragon tells the true story of the evolution of the Texas Gulf Coast crab and…
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From NPR on February 8th (Residents can return home after crews burned chemicals in derailed tanker cars): "About 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash Friday night on the edge of East Palestine. Federal investigators say a mechanical issue with a rail car axle caused the derailment." The derailed cars…
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"Dr. Peter Gleick is a leading scientist, innovator, and communicator on global water and climate issues." He is also a frequent Tweeter and sometimes instigator. Yesterday he tweeted this: I'm fairly certain Dr. Gleick knows there are a large number of 'atypical' economists who understand the non-market values of water (I'm not sure what a…
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This might be the first good thing to be coming out of the EPA in quite some time. via Will Wheeler on twitter: EPA is soliciting comment on issues related to water quality trading … (looks like the http://regs.gov docket is not live, but that just means you have more time) Here is the link: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-09/documents/water_quality_trading_under_the_npdes_program-signed_pre-pub.pdf Here…
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The subtitle is "Fertilizer runoff is making us sick. States can step in to regulate farmers." It's interesting that we're hoping states, not the federal government, will do the dirty work of telling farmers that they are making people sick. Here is the end of the article: Differential treatment of agricultural polluters cannot continue. Requiring…
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Here is the propaganda from App State: "Respondents willing to pay for stormwater management and reduce negative effects from runoff"! Using the Boone Creek watershed that runs through Appalachian State University’s campus as a laboratory, an interdisciplinary research team at Appalachian has been studying impacts from stormwater runoff and how to manage that runoff. “What…
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Today, Ohio Governor John Kasich will issue an executive order asking the Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission to declare eight Ohio waterways 'distressed' due to high phosphorous levels (phosphorous is one of the primary ingredients in commercial fertilizer): Frustrated by lawmakers’ refusal to consider a bill to get tougher on sources of agricultural pollution…
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I'm not sure how I missed the original story, but I'm surprised John and I weren't the first call when this happened: Whiskey barrels were piled in a mountainous heap Wednesday after the rest of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed in Kentucky, nearly two weeks after part of the decades-old structure came crashing down. The…
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The Legislature of the State of Ohio is currently considering legislation to reduce Phosphorous loadings into Lake Erie by 40%. This is a good thing, as reducing Phosphorous going into Lake Erie will reduce the incidence and impact of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Western Lake Erie Basin. The proposed legislation establishes a Clean Lake…
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