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EnviroScience, Inc. Awarded Five-Year $37.3 Million EPA Contract for National Aquatic Resource Surveys
EnviroScience, Inc. has been selected as a prime contractor for a five-year $37.3 million contract with the Environmental Protection Agency's National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) program. "The expertise of our biologists, lab specialists and fishery scientists makes us a natural fit for the EPA's requirements of gauging the health of the nation's water," said Martin A. Hilovsky, President ...
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Ecological Services and Lake Management Environmental Firm Receives 2011 Top Workplace Award
EnviroScience, Inc. was recently honored as one of the top places to work, ranking 6th out of 60 ranked small businesses in Northeast Ohio as listed in the Top Workplaces 2011 awards published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Top Workplaces 2011 award holds special significance because the selections are based upon the opinions of the employees. The top companies were ranked by the results of ...
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Up To $27.5 Million Available From EPA for 2014 Great Lakes Restoration Projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a Request for Applications soliciting proposals from states, municipalities, tribes, universities and nonprofit organizations for Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants to fund new projects to restore and protect the Great Lakes. Up to $27.5 million will be available during the current funding cycle. Grants will be awarded on a competitive ...
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Kenneth J. Wagner, Ph.D., CLM, of ENSR elected President of the North American Lake Management Society
ENSR Senior Water Resources Manager Elected to 3 year NALMS term November 29, 2005- Westford, MA – Kenneth J. Wagner, Senior Water Resources Manager with ENSR, has been elected President of the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) - a non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement and protection of lakes in North America. Dr. Wagner has been a member of NALMS ...
By AECOM
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Up To $20 million available from EPA for 2012 great lakes restoration projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it is requesting applications from states, municipalities, tribes, universities and nonprofit organizations for new projects to restore and protect the Great Lakes. EPA will distribute approximately $20 million through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant program during Fiscal Year 2012. "These grants will support critical ...
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EPA Awards 21 Grants to Combat Invasive Species in the Great Lakes Basin
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced 21 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GRLI) grants totaling nearly $8 million for projects to combat invasive species in the Great Lakes basin in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. “These EPA grants will prevent the spread of invasive species, increase the accuracy of early detection techniques, ...
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EPA approves Wisconsin’s phosphorus program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved Wisconsin’s program to reduce phosphorus levels in the Great Lakes and Wisconsin's inland waters. "EPA and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are working together to improve water quality by reducing phosphorus levels," said Regional Administrator/ Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman. "This will reduce harmful ...
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Up to $40 million available from EPA for great lakes restoration projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the agency is requesting applications from states, municipalities, tribes and nonprofit organizations for new projects to protect and restore the Great Lakes. President Obama has proposed a total of $300 million in funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in Fiscal Year 2011, with approximately $40 million of that total ...
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Up To $9.5 Million Available From EPA for 2013 Great Lakes Restoration Projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a Request for Applications soliciting proposals from states, municipalities, tribes, universities and nonprofit organizations for Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants to fund new projects to restore and protect the Great Lakes. Up to $9.5 million will be available during the current funding cycle. Grants will be awarded on a competitive ...
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ENSR prepares invasive plant species manual for AWWA research foundation and EPA
ENSR has prepared a new water resources manual that details current strategies for combating the spread of invasive milfoil species in U.S. drinking water supplies. Milfoil refers to species of freshwater aquatic plants which degrade the water quality and ecological habitat in drinking-water reservoirs. ENSR, part of AECOM, is a leading global environmental and water resource management ...
By AECOM
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Up To $13.9 Million Available From EPA for Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a Request for Applications soliciting proposals for Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants to fund new projects to restore and protect the Great Lakes. Up to $13.9 million will be available during the 2015 funding cycle for grants to state, tribal, interstate and local governmental agencies, institutions of higher learning and other ...
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EPA announces 2011 great lakes restoration initiative grants in Illinois
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today awarded Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling $2,693,875 to organizations and agencies in Illinois, including $1.1 million to the Chicago Park District to protect and improve water quality at city beaches. These grants are among 70 grants totaling nearly $30 million that EPA is awarding under the GLRI in 2011. “These grants are an ...
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EPA’s $6 million challenge to restore great lakes and create jobs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is setting aside approximately $6 million for federal agencies to sign up unemployed workers to implement restoration projects in federally-protected areas, on tribal lands and in Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes basin. EPA will fund individual projects up to $1 million. To qualify for ...
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EPA announces funding to restore lake michigan and put people back to work
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced $592,400 in funding for a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative project in Huron Manistee National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service project will help to restore Lake Michigan and put people back to work, using a conservation corps model to hire unemployed workers to improve habitat. The project was selected from 44 proposals totaling almost ...
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EPA Announces Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant to Ohio Lake Erie Commission to Study Causes of Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a $500,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the Ohio Lake Erie Commission to study the causes of harmful algal blooms and low oxygen levels in Lake Erie. “This EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant will fund crucial scientific work to answer questions about the role of nutrients, such as phosphorus, in harmful algal ...
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EPA announces funding to restore Lake Erie and put people back to work
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced funding for three Toledo-area Great Lakes Restoration Initiative projects totaling nearly $2.4 million. The projects will help to restore Lake Erie and put people back to work, using a conservation corps model to hire unemployed workers to improve habitat and clean up shoreline. The three Toledo-area projects were selected from 44 ...
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EnviroScience Opens Nashville Office and Expands Capabilities into Hazardous Materials and Ecological Damage Assessments
EnviroScience, Inc. has opened a Nashville, Tennessee office and has hired local employees with extensive chemistry and toxicology backgrounds. The new office will bring additional capabilities of ecological damage assessments and HAZMAT cleanup solutions to the business. In addition, the office is expected to greatly expand EnviroScience's key business area of biological monitoring throughout ...
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Duluth receives U.S. EPA’s first Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of a $250,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the City of Duluth to fund green infrastructure projects to improve water quality in the Lake Superior Basin. Duluth is the first of 16 cities to receive funding in the initial round of EPA’s new Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grant program. EPA ...
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Cleanup Work Complete in the Ashtabula River Area of Concern
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the completion of all cleanup work required to remove the Ashtabula River on Lake Erie from the binational list of Great Lakes Areas of Concern. EPA Region 5 Administrator/Great Lakes Program Manager Susan Hedman was joined for the announcement by U.S. Representative Dave Joyce, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Craig Butler, ...
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Measure Great Lakes cleanup progress
An Obama administration program that has spent more than $1.3 billion on healing the troubled Great Lakes needs a better scorecard for measuring its performance, a government watchdog report released Friday says. The analysis by the Government Accountability Office does not pass judgment on how well the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is working, while acknowledging that federal officials and ...
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