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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. How would disputes about the negative impacts of any geoengineering regime be adjudicated?

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Tim Doty is the scientist who led the TCEQ mobile monitoring team that recorded Channelview’s high benzene levels back in 2005 and 2006. The team’s report also prompted the TCEQ to launch an on-site investigation of K-Solv’s operation in February 2006. No trip was as revelatory as the one in April 2006.