Showing posts with label Scientific Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scientific Research. Show all posts

June 15, 2017

Trump Wants to Cut EPA’s Scientific Research in Half

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/trump-wants-to-cut-epas-scientific-research-in-half/
"President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific research programs by nearly half, according to a new report prepared by former EPA staffers. The newly formed Environmental Protection Network is a coalition made up of retired employees from Republican and Democratic administrations, many of whom have had decades of experience running the day-to-day work at the agency. And on Monday, this group of lawyers, scientists, and policy wonks released an analysis of the White House budget ahead of congressional testimony that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is set to deliver on Thursday. The hearing will be the first time that Pruitt will have to defend the dramatic cuts the administration has proposed for the agency."

September 16, 2014

Faulty shale gas wells contaminated drinking water in two states

www.southernstudies.org/2014/09/faulty-shale-gas-wells-contaminated-drinking-water.html
"Scientists from Duke University, Ohio State, Stanford, Dartmouth, and the University of Rochester found eight clusters of drinking-water wells that were contaminated as a result of gas well integrity problems including poor casing and cementing. One of the contaminated clusters was in Texas and seven were in Pennsylvania,"

Greenland 2014: Follow the Water

NASA: Warmest August Ever

NASA: Warmest August Ever

"August 2014 was the warmest since records began in 1880, new data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies reveals."

August 9, 2014

How Biomimicry Can Save the Planet

Humans Driving Planet's New Mass Extinction, Say Scientists

Humans Driving Planet's New Mass Extinction, Say Scientists

"The planet appears to be at the early stages of its sixth mass extinction, and humans are responsible, a new study finds.

Published last week in the journal Science, the study incorporates scientific literature review and data analysis by a team of international scientists, led by author Rodolfo Dirzo, a professor of biology at Stanford."