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MFA Brings Brownfield Redevelopment Planning Workshop to Portland, Oregon
The leading brownfields consulting firm in the Pacific Northwest is bringing its Brownfield Redevelopment Planning Workshop to Portland, OR, on June 13-14. Join the MFA team as they take you through an interactive workshop that gives attendees the opportunity to create a strategy to successfully redevelop a contaminated property. Developed as a method of testing the effectiveness of the ...
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Dandelions, snowflakes and swimming pools
Dandelions, snowflakes and swimming pools – what do they have in common? They are all terms used by Australian experts to explain science to the public. A scientific concept such as density might be explained by comparing, say, a piece of glass with a snowflake. A description of water management might invoke a drop of a dangerous substance in an Olympic-size swimming pool. Explaining the ...
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Synthetic biology: built-in barriers could prevent interactions with natural biology
A recent analysis highlights advances in the field of synthetic biology and efforts to develop approaches that will prevent non-natural organisms from interfering with natural organisms and ecosystems. It suggests that synthetic organisms could be developed with inbuilt ‘firewalls’ that prevent genetic interactions with other organisms. Synthetic biology is a rapidly emerging area of ...
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National settlement yields hundreds of millions for Superfund Sites in New Jersey and New York
A historic settlement announced today with the Kerr-McGee Corporation and certain of its affiliates (“New Kerr-McGee”), and their parent Anadarko Petroleum Corporation today (April 3, 2014) will greatly benefit environmental cleanups at the Welsbach Superfund site in Gloucester City, New Jersey and the GCL Tie and Treating Superfund site in Sidney, New York, and reimburse the federal ...
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EPA Proposes One Hazardous Waste Site in the Southeast to Superfund’s National Priorities List
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is proposing the 35th Avenue site in Birmingham, AL, a site that pose risks to human health and the environment, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. The Superfund program, a federal program established by Congress in 1980, investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous ...
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EPA`s FY 2016 Budget Proposal Increases Support for Communities to Deliver Core Environmental and Health Protections
The Obama Administration Fiscal Year 2016 budget announced today for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lays out a strategy to ensure that all Americans benefit from the economic recovery we are seeing today. The proposed EPA FY 2016 budget of $8.6 billion provides resources vital to that overarching vision and the request is $452 million above the agency’s enacted level for FY ...
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