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 In the News
Leaf Pack: Breaking New Ground by Studying Bugs
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Well Water Contamination by a Gasoline Additive Stroud™ Water Research Center scientist Anthony Aufdenkampe describes how the insidious chemical, methyl tertiary butyl ether or MTBE, which is added to gasoline to reduce knocking, is leaching into our groundwater and how it may remain there for centuries, in an article published by the American Water Works Association in November. The subject of a lawsuit and a verdict against gas company Exxon Mobil, MTBE has contaminated well water in the New York borough of Queens, and there may be many more cases like this across the country. Read more at: For more information about Anthony Aufdenkampe, go to: http://www.stroudcenter.org/about/aufdenkampe.htm
Drilling for Natural Gas Jeopardizes Clean Water Journalist Leah Zerbe of Rodale News reports on the process of natural gas fracking and asks Stroud™ scientist Lou Kaplan for information on the potential hazards to our limited supply of drinking water, due to the consumptive nature of the process and the variety of chemicals involved. "Anytime that we consider something like mining for coal or drilling for gas, all of those processes need to be viewed through a lens of environmental protection and sustainability," says Lou Kaplan, senior scientist at the Stroud Water Research Center, of the pursuit of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale and in many parts of the western United States. To learn more, read the article at: For more information about Lou Kaplan, go to:
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David C. Richardson writes in the professional journal Stormwater magazine about Forest Grove Community School in Oregon and Mahopac High School in New York, two of the schools that are using the Leaf Pack Experiment and getting results that are making a real difference to their communities. 
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