June 05, 2008
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Soil & Groundwater Newsletter June 05, 2008 |
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US$50.8m brownfield remediation contracts signed
TRC Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRR) announced that it signed four Exit Strategy contracts during the past year. TRC’s Exit Strategy program provides comprehensive environmental liability transfer solutions and the following projects demonstrate a continuing client demand for the program in order to facilitate M&A transactions, expedite redevelopment of industrial sites, and achieve cost certainty for liabilities associated with discontinued operations. The total value of the four contracts is US$50.8 million. Work under the contracts is expected to take several years to achieve substantial completion. ... |
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Designer `nanobatons` could help clean polluted groundwater and oil spills
In a development that could lead to new technologies for cleaning up oil spills and polluted groundwater, scientists at Rice University have shown how stick-shaped nano-particles of metal and carbon can trap oil droplets in water by assembling themselves into bag-like sacs. The tiny particles - each one smaller than one-billionth of a meter - were found to assemble spontaneously by the tens of millions into spherical sacs as large as BB pellets around droplets of oil in water. In addition, the scientists found that ultraviolet light and magnetic fields could be used to flip the nanoparticles, ... |
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