Posts Tagged ‘Chromium 6’
Water Weekly 3: Sweet and Stinky News of the Week
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find the Big Three here every Thursday, or you can follow LPAWater on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news and analysis. You can also sign up to receive the Weekly 3 via email here. This week:
Big News
Yeah, we’re excited the cops are finally closing in on Bat Boy, but the really big news this week is just how much good water news there’s been. Where do we start? How about the settlement agreement that will allow more water to be pumped from the Delta? Or the fact that there’s lots and lots of snow in the Sierras and it’s very, very wet? Or that the fisheries folks are predicting a banner year for California salmon, an indicator fish for Delta ecology? There’s just so much to choose from!
Read all about it! The Delta Settlement!
Water Weekly 3: Drama in California’s water news
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find the Big Three here every Thursday, or you can follow LPAWater on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news and analysis. You can also sign up to receive the Weekly 3 via email here. This week:
The Junk-science-man Cometh
The pseudo scientists at the Environmental Working Group have been at it again, drumming up public hysteria (and funds, presumably) by publishing yet another sloppy “scientific” analysis of nasty stuff in our water. This time it’s Chromium 6, and hundreds of newspapers picked up the story, most not bothering to note that there’s no data whatsoever linking cancer to Chromium 6 in water supplies. Or that cancer levels in the famous Chromium 6 town of Hinkley CA are below normal. Still, EPA announced that based on EWG’s study, it would look into Chromium 6 in water. Sigh.
