Natural Breakdown of Petroleum May Lace Arsenic into Groundwater

ENN
Jan 26, 2015, 4:09 pm29 pts
In a long-term field study, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Virginia Tech scientists have found that changes in geochemistry from the natural breakdown of petroleum hydrocarbons underground can promote the chemical release (mobilization) of naturally occurring arsenic into groundwater. This geochemical…

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