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Environmental Contamination Cleanup
Landfills, Leachate Ponds, Sewage Lagoons, Waste Cells professionally tested by the top environmental test laboratory in Malaysia. UltraZyme was analysed and tested against competive products with outstanding results in every area. Cypher Malaysia consented to requests to conduct tests on contaminated sites, specifically by the developer of Taman Sri Manja in Malaysia where hazardous ...
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Utilizing EQuIS to Study Exposure and its Impact on Reproductive Health in Northern Puerto Rico_Oct2014
The Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT) Program is a multi-project, multi-institution collaboration that involves four primary institutions, including Northeastern University. The PROTECT program studies the exposure to environmental contamination in Puerto Rico and its contribution to preterm birth. During this Office Hour, learn how Northeastern University is ...
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Illinois’ First Environmental Contaminant Treatment (ECT) System
The Otter Lake Water Commission has installed our TrojanUVSwift™ECT – a technology which optimizes the treatment of environmental contaminants, particularly taste and odor-causing compounds found in surface waters. This is the first ECT installation and the first UV system to receive disinfection credits in the State of Illinois. Built in 1969, the Otter Lake Water Commission ...
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Spatial Assessment and Ranking Of Relevant Environmental Contaminants
A risk-based tool built using multi-criteria decision analysis has been developed to rank environmental contaminants, giving each a level of concern. It can be used by decisionmakers to prioritise areas for further assessments, based on expected human health impacts. The range of toxic substances and the types of diseases they could lead to presents a significant challenge to decisionmakers ...
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Air & Waste Management Association and the International Society for Exposure Analysis
Pittsburgh, PA – On behalf of the International Society for Exposure Analysis (ISEA), the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) will accept abstracts and symposia proposals for the 17th Annual ISEA Conference, “Partnerships: Exploring Integrative Approaches in Exposure Assessment,” until Monday, April 30. The conference will be held Oct. 14-18, 2007, in Durham, North Carolina. The ISEA ...
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Alfa Chemistry Launches Environmental Contaminants Standards for A Safer World
Alfa Chemistry has never ceased its step in developing new standards to meet the latest needs arising from studies of environmental, food, water and contaminants. Via years of endeavors, the company has succeeded in the launch of a wide range of environmental goods standards for scientists and researchers across the globe, encompassing chlorinated phenol and resin acid standards, drinking water ...
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Rapid Response Pump Hire for the Environment Agency
Blithfield Reservoir in Staffordshire recently played host to a training day held by the Environment Agency in order to measure emergency response times to aid in future flood alleviation plans. Maris Pumps Ltd, partnered with the Environment Agency, received an emergency call to mobilise pumping equipment including a 12” high flow pump and associated pipework to the reservoir and quickly ...
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Comments sought: endocrine disruptor screening program draft procedures
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling for comments about draft policies and procedures for the initial screening of pesticide chemicals under the agency's Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). The comments should focus on the specific policies and related procedures that EPA will follow to impose data requirements, minimize duplicate testing, promote equitable cost-sharing, ...
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EPA recognizes Maryland School districts with indoor air quality excellence awards (MD)
“We commend the management and staff at Baltimore and Fredrick County Public School Districts for achieving these awards,” said EPA’s mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. “Their efforts in ensuring healthy indoor air will help improve their students’ well-being, learning and development.” The two Maryland school districts and other awardees ...
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EPA awards community improvement association $200,000 Brownfields cleanup grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Community Improvement Association in Madison, Arkansas, a $200,000 brownfields cleanup grant. “Brownfields grants help to revitalize these contaminated sites,” said EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz. “This grant builds on EPA’s commitment of working with communities to hand down a healthier, more ...
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Dedication Ceremony for Advanced Oxidation Processing Facility in Tucson
Today we attended the Dedication Ceremony for the Advanced Oxidation Processing (AOP) Water Treatment Facility in Tucson, Arizona. The facility was constructed adjacent to the existing Tucson Airport Remediation Project (TARP) Plant – these treatment facilities will purify up to 8 million gallons of water a day. The treatment facility is part of a proactive approach on behalf of the City ...
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Soil removal and Phase 2 lead sampling to begin in Pittsburg, Kan.
EPA Region 7 and its contractors will start to excavate and remove lead-contaminated soils from approximately 30 properties in Pittsburg, Kan., beginning the week of October 26, 2009. The removal work, which will focus on properties with lead levels of 550 parts per million or greater, is expected to last for several months. As the soil removal work gets underway, EPA will also begin its ...
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EPA awards Pulaski county, Arkansas, $400,000 in Brownfields assessment grants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Pulaski County, Arkansas, $400,000 in brownfields grants to conduct environmental assessments and community outreach activities in Little Rock and North Little Rock. “Brownfields grants help to revitalize these contaminated sites,” said EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz. “This grant builds on EPA’s ...
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ABIH Sponsors a Series of Online Educational Videos
Earlier this month, the ABIH announced that they had launched a campaign to bring to light the efforts of the organization and make people aware of the many ways that Certified Industrial Hygienists (CIHs) protect and enhance the health and safety of people at work and in the communities. As a component of this new campaign, the ABIH is helping to sponsor educational videos about a variety of ...
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15,000 OEMs and Specifiers For Environmental Contamination Control And Energy Systems
Suppliers of pumps, valves, materials, instruments, controls, and various services are often selling to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The critical buying decisions may be made early in the project by the architect/engineer (A/E) or other specifier. Over 15,000 companies around-the-world have been identified as either significant OEM purchasers or A/E specifiers for environmental, ...
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Free IAIA webinar on psycho-social impact assessment
The International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) is offering a free webinar on "Understanding Impacts on Vulnerable Populations through Psycho-Social Impact Assessment." The webinar will be presented by IAIA member Michael Edelstein on 19 July. Psycho-Social Impact Assessment (PSIA) is historically underutilized. Its absence partially explains why affected publics so often feel that ...
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Pesticides persist in Indian atmosphere
While residues of banned pesticides in the atmosphere are declining around the world India continues to have exceptionally high levels, a new study shows. Portable samplers using chemically treated resin and deployed at several sites on seven continents from 2005 to 2008 showed that ‘organochlorine’ or chlorine-containing pesticides such as DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane), ...
By SciDev.Net
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Reimagining the cleaning process
Rather than desperately dispersing the flow of oil and chemical contaminants via artificial means, it should instead be possible to use biological agents and green technology to neutralize the threat they pose. This was the thought which motivated Janet Angel, an environmental scientist who has worked to redefine and reimagine the process of cleaning up contaminants. Incidents like the ongoing ...
By Jacor, LLC
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Chevron CEO John Watson lied to shareholders about not having assets in Ecuador
A court decision this week in Ecuador to freeze an estimated $200 million of Chevron assets is clear evidence that the oil giant’s CEO and General Counsel were lying to shareholders when they repeatedly claimed the company had no assets in the country, according to an analysis by the Amazon Defense Coalition. An Ecuador court this week froze all bank accounts of Chevron and its ...
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Positive review received by book on large-scale strategies for the environment
David McCorquodale, co-chair of Green Pages (the US Green Party quarterly), just released a positive review for Mark C. Henderson's book on large-scale strategies for the environment. It is currently posted on the publisher's website (Waves of the Future, http://wavesofthefuture.net) and will be printed in the February 2009 issue of Green Pages (http://www.gp.org/greenpages).McCorquodale's wrote: ...
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