environmental cleanup Books
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ASTM Standards on Assessment and Remediation of Petroleum Release Sites: 2nd Edition
with federal and state environmental cleanup regulations for petroleum contamination. This new ASTM ...
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Technologies for Environmental Cleanup: Soil and Groundwater
Industrialized nations are facing a broad range of environmental restoration problems associated with contamination of surface-subsurface soils. Remedial action is assigned a high priority because of possibly dangerous drinking water contamination and non-compliance situations. Numerous technologies, ...
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Technologies for Environmental Cleanup: Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management
It is generally acknowledged today that the most effective strategy for toxic and hazardous waste management is: reduction, reuse and recycle. However, to date most of the activity has been in treatment technologies. This book focuses on recent technological issues commercially available or in various stages of implementation. Developments in the U.S. and Europe in the area of waste ...
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Metals in the Environment: Analysis by Biodiversity
A summary of data on heavy metal accumulation, biomonitoring, toxicity and tolerance, metal contamination and pollution in the environment, and the importance of biodiversity for environmental monitoring and cleanup of metal-contaminated and polluted ecosystems. It advocates the use of bacteria, ...
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Amending CERCLA
Controversial yet powerful, litigated but most often settled, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) has a complicated history. CERCLA gave the Environmental Protection Agency vast authority to clean up sites, a dedicated source of funds to undertake ...
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Nuclear Submarine Decommissioning and Related Problems
The end of the Cold War has led to an acceleration in the decommissioning of the world's nuclear submarine fleet. Russian vessels, in particular, are being taken rapidly out of service and this surge of vessels has in many cases far exceeded the capacity of the available decommissioning facilities in Russia. Severe problems exist in areas such as the storage of submarines awaiting ...
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Urban Ecology
Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, Reclaiming the Land provides a much-needed lens through which the Superfund program should be assessed and reshaped. Focusing on the lessons of adaptive management, it explores new ...
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An Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology
An Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology provides an introduction to the subject of environmental biotechnology. Environmental biotechnology refers to the use of micro-organisms and other living systems to solve current environmental problems such as the detoxification of pollutants and clean-up of ...
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Reclaiming the Land
Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, Reclaiming the Land provides a much-needed lens through which the Superfund program should be assessed and reshaped. Focusing on the lessons of adaptive management, it explores new ...
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Environmental Forensics
Environmental forensics' is a combination of analytical and environmental chemistry, which is useful in the court room context. It therefore involves field analytical studies and both data interpretation and modelling connected with the attribution of pollution events to their causes. Recent decades have ...
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