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This week’s issue has a predominant (though not exclusive) theme of water: an investigation into possible ill effects of fracking on drinking water sources in California; the ‘adequate’ cleanup of a toxic spill in a North Carolina river; the repaired leak and cooling system of Fukushima Daiichi’s Unit 5; and President Obama’s startling decision to open up federal waters off the entire Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. to oil companies wishing to use sonic cannons: a geological survey method that threatens to damage the hearing (and therefore navigation ability) of whales and other sea creatures — plus more news items.
And if you’d like, you can send a message to President Obama via Oceana’s petition, letting him know you’ll be supporting any efforts to block seismic blasting permits from oil and gas companies that would threaten aquatic species of the Northern Atlantic.