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Richland County hit with million-dollar fine for pollution violations linked to Scout Motors construction site
New details have emerged after the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) fined Richland County due to ...
State regulators fine Richland County $3M for failing to contain pollutants at Scout Motors site
May 5's order requires stabilizing basins and slopes and evaluating silt fences, with compliance deadlines ranging from 14 to ...
Richland County hit with $3 million fine for pollution at Scout Motors site
This is not the first time the Scout Motors plant project has been under scrutiny by environmental regulators.
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Trawling-Induced Sediment Resuspension Reduces CO2 Uptake
When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic ...
Dark, ashy wildfire sediment still sits on L.A beaches. But there’s no health risk, officials say
Ashy wildfire sediment on Los Angeles County beaches does not contain chemicals at a level that pose a danger to human health ...
Seafloor disturbance in Baltic Sea turns carbon sink into surprising CO₂ source
The resuspension of seafloor sediments—triggered by human activities such as bottom trawling as well as natural processes ...
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Trawling-induced sediment resuspension reduces CO2 uptake
“Fine-grained, muddy sediments are important reservoirs of organic carbon and pyrite,” says lead author Habeeb Thanveer Kalapurakkal, a PhD student in the Benthic Biogeochemistry working group ...