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Long COVID Awareness Day 2023
Today, March 15, 2023 is the very first international Long COVID Awareness Day! Public Herald Studios is partnering with the Long COVID Action Project (LCAP) to help end this health crisis.
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We demand urgent treatment and support for this community by mobilizing public awareness and driving government accountability. More media from Public Herald soon.
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How Fast Does Rotenone Breakdown in Montana?
The way regulators test for pollution in our environment is often deeply flawed. If we want the whole story, more accurate options are needed.
READ THE FULL STORY: https://publicherald.org/yellowstone-series-government-uses-poison-linked-to-parkinsons-in-montana-waterways-since-1948/
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jkklpQ8IpZ5tZTeipojKa?si=ciddeiL9RSGuIB56-o7tzQ
FWP’s conclusions about rotenone’s impact to wildlife post-treatment often rely on testing model studies that were performed in the 1980s:
“Rotenone has a half-life of 14 hours at 24 °C, and 84 hours at 0 °C (Gilderhus et al. 1986, 1988), meaning that half of the rotenone is deactivated and is no longer toxic in that time.”
Though according to Microbac laboratories, rotenone degradation is not as simple as FWP reports. Depending on a variety of conditions — i.e. sunlight, temperature and sediment – rotenone could decay rapidly (within 24 hours) or take months.
“Because of all of these factors, [bold added] aquatic systems treated with rotenone cannot be labeled as nontoxic until the systems have been analyzed for rotenone and its degradation products, as well as other chemicals found in various rotenone formulations. The analytical methods used to determine the levels of rotenone (and other chemicals) must be sensitive enough to detect these compounds in the low ppb levels and specific enough to ensure identification of each compound.”
A 2015 study out of New Zealand that used “gamma distribution to determine half-life of rotenone, applied in freshwater” had a similar concern. This study looked at whether a more sensitive model for testing would change the dissipation results of rotenone in a treated waterbody. It found that when using this model, the half-life range of rotenone was ten times longer (or, roughly 50 days) in comparison to the usual method to determine its half-life.
What if federal and state governments used more sensitive models for te
Toxic Oil and Gas Waste Laced with Radioactive Material
40+ residents of Dimock Township PA, where water contamination from oil and gas fracking has polluted homes for years, submitted affidavits opposing a new plan to treat toxic oil and gas waste laced with radioactive material and dump the leftovers into two creeks.
📡 Read the story or blast the podcast: https://publicherald.org/npdes-pa
A key part of this story is that Eureka’s patented process seemingly fails to remove cancer-causing radium [element with half-life of 1,600 years] from the waste it purports to “cleanse.”
Read or listen to the full story: www.publicherald.org/npdes-pa/
In January, Public Herald reported that DEP’s own data reveals that Eureka’s treatment process only removed about 9% of radium from the oil and gas wastewater it processed at its facility in Williamsport, PA.
Permits to Pollute Exposed
You, the public, can now see for the first time where all the (NPDES) permits to pollute waterways are in Pennsylvania. What are the cumulative impacts on our health, community and the environment? Read or listen to our latest investigation:
http://www.publicherald.org/npdes-pa/
Pennsylvania’s Permits to Pollute
Our team is digging into the darker corners of WATER POLLUTION across Pennsylvania as more and more radioactive, carcinogenic fracking waste builds up. 👉 Click the link to read or listen to the latest striking investigation on NPDES = Permission To Pollute
https://bit.ly/3E2U5oJ
For about six years, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has obscured the radioactive hazards of oil and gas operations. Ever since the 2016 release of its study on oil and gas TENORM — technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material — the DEP has kept the names and locations of where radioactive waste was detected a secret and told the general public there was little to worry about.
(Podcast & story link in bio)
The question is, does the radium in the raw data tell a different story?
When the Department chose not to release the names of the 144 locations tested in the 2016 study, it blocked the public’s ability to make place-based, local decisions about potential threats from TENORM.
Now, for the first time, all 144 names and locations are being released by the team at Public Herald. We’ve mapped the landfills, centralized waste treatment facilities, publicly owned treatment works, zero-liquid discharge facilities, brine-treated roads, well pads and their test results for radium from the DEP’s study.
#pollution #energy #infrastructure #rivers #water #journalism #rightsofNature #fracking #epa #dep #shapiroforgovernor #biden #trump
Private & public facilities responsible for cleaning up radioactive fracking waste "are often not removing even half, or in some cases any, radioactivity before fracking waste is discharged to rivers,"according the latest investigation @PublicHerald. (Story/podcast in bio) #radioactive #fracking #climatecrisis #water #drinkingwater #tenorm #journalism #news
Public Herald Releasing Ohio Investigative Series on TENORM This Week!
We have BIG news coming this week from Public Herald about #TENORM waste in America's Heartland. For those that don't know, Public Herald is a nonprofit investigative newsroom that holds those in power accountable. You can receive our latest breaking stories by subscribing to our newsletter at https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=publicherald&loc=en_US or becoming a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/publicherald.
We've spent the last 15 months putting this series together in Ohio, so any support, be it $1 or more, will go a long way to helping our team get these stories out and keep the doors open for more investigative work down the road.
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Governor takes action on testing TENORM after Public Herald’s investigation two years back broke the story on statewide landfills releasing radioactive leachate into PA waters.
Investigative journalism gets the goods. Governor Tom Wolf takes action on testing Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (#TENORM) after Public Herald’s investigation two years back broke the story on statewide landfills releasing radioactive leachate into Pennsylvania waters: https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/DEP_details.aspx?newsid=1469.
Read/listen to the original report that kicked off our series: www.publicherald.org/leachate.
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#DEP #ClimateNews #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #pennsylvania #RadioactiveWaste #Fracking #oilandgas #CommunityImpact #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #EnvironmentalImpact #Investigation #IndependentMedia #independentnews #Landfill #Radium #wastewater #wastewatertreatment
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America Is Building Mountains of Radioactive Fracking Waste & the One in Joe Biden’s Hometown Is Under Criminal Investigation
“This is the future of our community at stake,” said Michele Dempsey from Friends of Lackawanna. “Our community lives or dies on this [expansion] decision, and so we gave it our hearts and souls.” Dempsey’s community is just one of many across America where, since fracking began, state and federal regulators have sent radioactive material to residual waste sites. As this waste piles up in public and private landfills, the size and risk of these “TENORM Mountains” looms large.
Report: https://publicherald.org/america-is-building-mountains-of-radioactive-fracking-waste-the-one-in-joe-bidens-hometown-is-under-criminal-investigation/.
Stopping Radioactive Water: Officials Want to Ban Oil & Gas Injection Wells at Pennsylvania Headwaters
“If Only I Would’ve Known” Oil & Gas Whistleblowers Speak Out About Exposure to Radioactivity on Fracking Jobs
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