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NASA Awards Environmental Compliance and Operations Contract
NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc. of Oak Ridge, Tenn., to provide environmental management and services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M. The White Sands Test Facility Environmental Compliance and Operations contract calls for a fixed-price one-year and seven month base period with a potential value of $3.1 million, and four one-year options ...
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EOS Remediation offers free consultations
Bioremediation costs less than traditional/conventional environmental cleanup technologies, yet provides the longest sustained treatment option of any. Is bioremediation the right technology for your environmental cleanup project? EOS Remediation offers free one-on-one consultations. Contact our technival support department today to arrange for a free training session with you and your project ...
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Sitting Bull College receives $300K to grow green jobs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today awarded Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota a $300,000 Workforce Development and Job Training Grant to promote green jobs on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The funds will be used to develop a training program that will teach students environmental cleanup skills and assist with job placement. Today’s award is among 21 similar ...
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Landau Associates Announces New Staff
Landau Associates is pleased to announce that Elizabeth (Beth) Clark, P.E. has joined the firm as an Associate Engineer in the Tri-Cities area. Ms. Clark has over twenty years of experience working in the public and private sectors on a wide variety of environmental and site development projects. Her areas of expertise include environmental project management, environmental permitting, ...
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Vermont to Receive Nearly $1.5 Million in EPA Brownfields Grants
Today EPA announced that Vermont is the recipient of nearly $1.5 million in EPA brownfields grants. The funds will go to six separate entities and are a combination of assessment, cleanup and revolving loan fund (RLF) grants. The Rutland Regional Planning Commission is the recipient of a $200,000 assessment grant that will help assist cities and towns throughout southwestern Vermont. Rutland RPC ...
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More than 1.4 billion pounds of harmful air, land, and water pollution to be reduced
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the release of its annual enforcement and compliance results. In fiscal year (FY) 2010, EPA took enforcement and compliance actions that require polluters to pay more than $110 million in civil penalties and commit to spend an estimated $12 billion on pollution controls, cleanup, and environmental projects that benefit communities. ...
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GE Completes Hudson River Dredging
GE [NYSE: GE] today (Oct 2, 2015) announced it has completed dredging in New York’s Upper Hudson River. Since 2009, GE has removed the majority of PCBs from the Upper Hudson River in one of the largest and most successful environmental cleanup projects ever undertaken in the United States. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called the project an historic achievement that ...
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U.S. EPA releases annual enforcement results and mapping tool
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released enforcement results for fiscal year 2009, and has developed a new Web-based tool and interactive map that allows the public to get detailed information by location about the enforcement actions taken at approximately 4,600 facilities. In FY2009, EPA concluded enforcement actions requiring polluters to invest more than $5 ...
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US energy department faulted for mishandling Hanford nuclear waste
The US Department of Energy doesn't know enough about the condition and contents of millions of gallons of radioactive and hazardous wastes stored in tanks at its Hanford Site in Washington state to make good decisions about cleanup and costs, according to a new report by Congress's investigative agency. The findings issued by the US General Accountability Office are the latest in a string of ...
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ESD Waste2Water Builds Customized Tube Settler Clarifier for Environmental Cleanup Project
ESD Waste2Water, Inc. is proud to have partnered with a major utility provider on an environmental cleanup project involving dredging contaminated silt from a small section of New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts. The harbor is contaminated with a byproduct consisting primarily of coal tar. New Bedford is only one city, among thousands of other locations in the US, which used Manufactured Gas Plants ...
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Using plants to purify canal water - researchers outline a natural way to clean Italy`s polluted Pontine Marshes
Just south of Rome lie the Pontine Marshes, a vexed part of the Italian countryside. In ancient times, Roman emperors tried unsuccessfully to drain the marshes, something only achieved in the 1930s through a system of massive pumps and canals that removed enough water to turn the area into productive farmland. Yet today those canals have become heavily polluted, endangering the area’s agriculture ...
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U.S. Allows Radioactive Materials in Ordinary Landfills
TAKOMA PARK, Maryland, May 14, 2007 (ENS) - Radioactive materials from nuclear weapons facilities are being released to regular landfills and could get into commercial recycling streams, finds a report issued today by the nonprofit Nuclear Information and Resource Service, NIRS. Radioactive scrap, concrete, equipment, asphalt, plastic, wood, chemicals, and soil are placed in ordinary landfills, ...
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US polluters to pay record US$11.8bn in 2008, says EPA
Fiscal year 2008 was a banner year for EPA’s enforcement and compliance program, which concluded civil and criminal enforcement actions requiring regulated entities to spend an estimated $11.8 billion on pollution controls, cleanup and environmental projects, a record for EPA. “After these pollution control activities are completed, EPA estimates record pollution reductions of 3.9 billion pounds ...
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EPA to introduce new measures to increase soil recovery at contanimated sites
As part of the US EPA's goal of improved environmental stewardship across its programs, the Agency has begun examining opportunities to integrate sustainable practices into the decision-making processes and implementation strategies used to remediate and manage contaminated lands. Three major efforts under this umbrella will be discussed in this seminar; 1) Green remediation, 2) soil amendments ...
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EnviroVantage performs demolition of four structures completing entire project with only 1 dumpster of trash
The Elliott Rose Farm in Dover, NH included 4 greenhouses; 3 at 800 feet in length and 1 at 400 feet. Due to age and snow pressure, it was necessary to re-enforce the metal framing with wood. The only way to secure the wood, glass and frame was to use caulking that, unfortunately in the 1970’s, contained asbestos. In 2003, the rose farm shut down but the land was still very valuable. ...
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Black & Veatch experiences significant growth in Asia Pacific water business
Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company, announced that it more than tripled the annual revenues of its water business in the Asia Pacific region during 2007. Last year, the business posted around US$ 170m in revenues up from around US$ 50m in previous years. “This significant growth was a result of our capitalizing on opportunities in new markets and ...
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