The president's popularity in California has sunk 24 points, to 49percentt, since its high-water mark after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to The Field Poll, a respected California polling operation, released July 17.
"The official Isis operation released photos of them filming – and it's all on equipment that we use at Vice," says Vice journalist Aris Roussinos, who reports extensively on both jihadists and their online activity (warning: contains graphic images).
In addition to the chemicals used by the industry, the operation releases many hazardous materials from the shale itself, including radium, uranium and radon, arsenic, and mercury.
These scenarios underscore the need to consider time periods of operation, releases, environmental pathways, uptake, and internal doses, including the physical half-lives, environmental transformations, and biokinetics of radionuclides of interest.
There is significant evidence, for instance, that fracking operations release air pollutants linked to health problems.
"Smelting operations release sulphur dioxide and other pollutants which have severely affected residents with various skin, eye and respiratory diseases.
It was set in motion by the Swiss army's decision to close the firing range and scale back other operations, releasing land suitable for development on the valley floor.
In 2011 alone, Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company that dominates Brazil's energy industry, had 66 leaks of oil in its operations, releasing 234,000 liters of oil, according to a report by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo.
A leaked internal US white paper on the "lawfulness of lethal operations", released in the wake of the killing of a US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, in Yemen in 2011, radically revised the concept of imminence.
Joel Litvin, the president of league operations, released a brief statement saying that "the officials missed an intentional foul committed by Antoine Wright on Carmelo Anthony, just prior to Anthony's 3-point basket".
