The Unofficial "Resistance" team of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Not taxpayer subsidized! Environmental conditions may vary from alternative facts.
Mar 9, 2020 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
[OFFTOPIC - covid19] White House covid-19 task force briefing is beginning.
There's a lot of very intense standing around.
Mar 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
[OFFTOPIC - Covid19] Two reliable scientific sources of Covid-19 assessments can be found on YouTube with Dr. Roger Seheult, MD (MEDCRAMvideos aimed at scientists) and Dr. John Campbell (Campbellteaching - slower, more opinionated, more technically accessible).
For up-to-the-minute aggregated data on cases and deaths with some good charts, Dr. Seheult references this "worldometers" site: worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Jul 7, 2018 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Knowing the (Regional) Administrator:
Trey Glenn holds the top administrative spot in the EPA's Region 4 ( AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN). epa.gov/newsreleases/e…
Prior to his role at the EPA, Mr. Glenn worked at the Alabama Department of Environmental Management from which he quit while under investigation for ethical violations over accepting "gifts" from "Alabama power." apr.org/post/former-ad…
Mar 23, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Overuse of nitrogen by US farms leads to nitrogen runoff into the Mississippi River. That water travels to the Gulf of Mexico where it indirectly creates a hypoxic zone in which fish cannot live. It's the size of New Jersey!
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/deadzone…
This costs the US about $82m/year but also forces fishing boats to travel further which increases CO2 output from fisheries.
