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University of Alberta Researchers Find That Oil Sands Industry Is Releasing More Pollutants Into Athabasca River System Than Previously Estimated

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An open access article on their study was published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Contrary to claims made by industry and government in the popular press, the oil sands industry substantially increases loadings of toxic PPE [priority pollutants] to the AR and its tributaries via air and water pathways.

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BOEMRE awards $5.6M for Arctic environmental study to inform decision-making on potential energy development in the Chukchi Sea; $500K for study on ice fracturing

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His team will include researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the University of Maryland, the University of Rhode Island, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dunton, University of Texas at Austin, will serve as Principal Investigator.

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EST Editor Calls for Papers on Gulf Spill; Ending the Addiction

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Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. But add a real plan to end our oil addiction.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

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One of these is Westwater Resources, which controls what it says is the second-biggest graphite deposit in the US (the biggest is in a remote region of Alaska). There’s natural graphite, which is what Westwater produces, and there’s artificial or synthetic graphite, which is made, ironically, from oil refining by-products.

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Wyoming embattled over EV infrastructure placement

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Wyoming wants to phase out sales of EVs by 2035 to “ensure the stability” of the oil & gas industry According to Alternative Fuels Data Center statistics, Wyoming has 81 EV charging station locations, more than only Alaska (57), North Dakota (78), and South Dakota (73). What do you think of the article?

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EPA expected to drop bombshell ICE vehicle regulation

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Still, under pressure from environmental groups to act after opening a new oil drilling location in Alaska, President Biden may attempt to push the new rule through before his term in office. What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns? Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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On 4 March 2015, he sent an email to the campus newspaper, The Daily Targum : “A while back you had an article that talked about the DDoS attacks on Rutgers. Up in Anchorage, Alaska, the FBI cyber unit was building a case against VDoS. At the age of 33, Peterson had returned to his native state of Alaska to prosecute cybercrime.

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