Environmental Management News

Since enactment of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act last June, a logjam of new chemicals under review at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unable to enter commerce has developed.  EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) is adjusting to new requirements in the 2016 amendments to the nation’s primary chemicals law, the ...

May 24, 2017

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Honeywell has selected CH2M for remedial construction management at the Quanta Resources Corporation Superfund site. The site, located in Edgewater, New Jersey, is one of the largest in-situ stabilization remediation projects of its kind. Edgewater's industrial history, which dates back to the 1880s, left behind contaminated soil, river sediments and groundwater. Partnering on the remediation ...

May 23, 2017

By CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd.

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:BW) (B&W) today announced that effective July 1, 2017, its Industrial Steam Generation group will transition from the Power segment to the Industrial segment. In addition, effective immediately, Leslie Kass has been named Senior Vice President, Industrial, to lead the segment. After July 1, the Industrial segment will include the ...

May 23, 2017

By Babcock & Wilcox

With the General Election less than one month away, nearly 40 community groups representing hundreds of thousands of people, including many AEF members, today delivered a statement to Number 10 warning the next novernment that it must prioritise introducing tougher regulation to deal with the adverse impacts of aircraft noise. Charles Lloyd of the Aviation Communities Forum, who co-ordinated the ...

May 22, 2017

By A.E.F. S.r.l.

Survalent, a leading provider of advanced distribution management systems (ADMS), recently announced that Huntsville Utilities has successfully deployed the SurvalentONE supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for its electric, gas, and water systems. Huntsville Utilities is a municipal utility in Huntsville, Alabama, with approximately 180,000 electricity customers, 51,000 gas ...

May 25, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

Ralph Izzo, president, chairman and chief executive officer of Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), recently (5/24) called for a set of statewide regulatory reforms that would create financial incentives for utilities to help their customers reduce at-home energy use, as well as expand access to renewable energy and new energy-saving technologies. He also encouraged New Jersey utility ...

May 25, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

Cummins Power is reporting that Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., one of the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, will use its generator sets for Huawei’s first data center project in Turkey. Cummins, which is the global diesel generator supplier of Huawei, ...

May 24, 2017

By Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide

Equitable access to clean water and sanitation is a sustainable development goal that merits attention in Cambodia. The purpose of this study was to examine the WaSH infrastructure, practices, and previous interventions in 8 rural government schools serving approximately 2,500 students in the Trapeang Chour Commune, Cambodia. A rapid assessment methodology was utilized to collect field data ...

May 23, 2017

By Aquagenx, LLC

A radical transformation in the way energy is supplied and used will be needed if the world is to meet its ambition of keeping global temperature increase to below 2 degrees Celsius, but the impacts of that transformation on the environment and on natural resources have been unclear. Now, the International Resource Panel, a group of eminent experts in natural resource management hosted by UN ...

May 22, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

AMETEK Land announces that its Technical Director, Dr. Peter Drögmöller, * and Glass Sector Lead, Mark Bennett, ** will speak at the internationally renowned Glass Performance Days (GPD), June 28-30, 2017 in Tampere, Finland.     Dr. Drögmöller will ...

May 22, 2017

By AMETEK Land

We would like to kindly thank you for your visiting our stand at IE EXPO in Shanghai. We hope you thoroughly enjoyed your visit and the hospitality on offer at our booth.   The exhibition was a great success and it gave us the opportunity to showcase our full range of products, systems, solutions and services and also to introduce our representative office in Luoyang  to the ...

May 22, 2017

By Baioni Crushing Plants Spa

Protea will be presenting at the Air Quality and Emissions Show in Telford on May 24th to 25th at stand numbers 13 & 14. The 9th in the series of Air Quality & Emissions Events will focus on industrial emissions and stack monitoring of (Part A) processes regulated by the Regulators of the United Kingdom and North Ireland, ambient air quality monitoring, the emissions to air of Part A2 and ...

May 19, 2017

By Protea Limited

In a U.S. House subcommittee hearing today, the ...

May 19, 2017

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) have begun to treat the drums of remediated nitrate salts (RNS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Approximately one RNS drum will be treated per day at the Waste Characterization, Reduction, and Repackaging Facility. It is expected that treatment of ...

May 19, 2017

By U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

The ratification of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, confirms Europe's leading role to protect citizens' health and the environment around the world. Upon initiative from the EU, the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the new global treaty on mercury was negotiated and concluded in 2013. The EU has one of the most ambitious policies for ...

May 18, 2017

By Europa Press Room

As part of its observance of Infrastructure Week, the American Water Works Association announced the launch of its new Buried No Longer® (BNL) tool. The BNL online tool offers water and wastewater utilities the opportunity to accurately forecast the cost of their water and wastewater pipe repair and replacement needs. It provides cost estimates and financial deferrals based on inputted data ...

May 18, 2017

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

WHAT: Media webinar  WHO: Christian Zinglersen, Head of CEM Secretariat WHEN: Tuesday 23 May - 4:00PM Paris Time   Ahead of the next Clean Energy Ministerial ...

May 18, 2017

By International Energy Agency

Oxford Instruments has added the X-MET8000 Expert Geo to its successful range of X-MET8000 handheld XRF (X-ray fluorescence) analysers for rapid, on-site environmental soil and sediment testing. X-MET8000 Expert Geo offers fast screening for heavy metals, dramatically reducing the need for laboratory analyses and their associated cost. Easy to use and ...

May 18, 2017

By Oxford Instruments plc

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) is pleased to announce the publication of New TSCA: A Guide to the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act and Its Implementation, released today by the American Bar Association (ABA).  This new book is a ...

May 18, 2017

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and also the beginning of tick season in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Occupational exposure to Lyme disease is a significant concern for millions of workers who spend much of their time outdoors in areas known to have disease-causing ticks.  In North America, the disease is caused by the bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi and ...

May 18, 2017

By American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH)