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New ENSR Online Seminar Addresses Phytoremediation for Site Cleanups

Phytoremediation Technology Presents - Cost Effective Remediation Solutions WESTFORD, Mass. (September 11, 2006) - A new online seminar focusing on using Phytoremediation for site cleanups is being given by ENSR, a leading nationwide environmental consulting and engineering firm. Phytoremediation uses plants (trees, grasses and wetland species) to remove or stabilize environmental ...

Sep. 14, 2006

By AECOM

CL-Out Perchlorate Bioremediation Receives Greener Cleanup Leadership Award

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection awarded Irwin Engineering of Natick, Massachusetts the 2016 Greener Cleanup Leadership Award for the innovative in situ bioremediation of perchorate contamination of soil and ground water at the Concord Road Site in Billerica, Massachusetts. The award honors LSPs and their clients for promoting greener cleanup principles and practices to ...

Mar. 22, 2021

By CL Solutions, LLC

Emissions Software for Site Cleanups: Demonstration at A&WMA

Minnich and Scotto, Inc will present a paper, “Validation Testing of the Area-Source Technique Using EPA Method TO-16” at the Air & Waste Management Association’s Air Quality Measurement Methods and Technology Conference, March 15-17, 2016, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The presentation is scheduled for 2:20 pm, March 1. Immediately following the session, interested ...

Feb. 15, 2016

By Minnich and Scotto, Inc.

Demolition to Begin Aug. 24 at Carter Carburetor Superfund Site

Demolition and removal work at the Carter Carburetor Superfund Site in north St. Louis, Mo., is expected to get underway on Monday, August 24, EPA Region 7 announced today. The CBI Building, a four-story structure at 2840 N. Spring Avenue, and the adjacent two-story WILLCO Building, will be torn down and hauled away by contractors and subcontractors hired by ACF Industries, Inc., one of the ...

Aug. 20, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Pueblo of Laguna Resident Receives National Community Involvement Award

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Amy Garcia of the Pueblo of Laguna as the winner of the national 2013 Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award. This annual award recognizes outstanding achievements in environmental protection and community-involvement leadership during Superfund cleanups. Superfund is the federal program created by Congress to address the ...

Aug. 21, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Superfund green remediation strategy

The U.S. EPA is seeking public comment on a new strategy that would make cleanups at hazardous waste sites greener. The Superfund Green Remediation Strategy is an initial effort to outline key actions and related activities that can be undertaken to promote green remediation and to reduce energy use. EPA is taking comment on action items that fall into three major categories: policy and guidance ...

Sep. 9, 2009

By The Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN)

Facility Sweep Finds Excessive Cardboard Disposal

A number of well-known Massachusetts businesses and institutions continue to throw away large volumes of easy-to-recycle cardboard in spite of a state ban on its disposal, savings on disposal costs and its value as a commodity, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) reported today. For the first time, the agency has taken enforcement actions against waste ban ...

Feb. 5, 2007

By Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

EPA awards $50,000 technical assistance grant for the san jacinto river waste pits superfund site

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $50,000 technical assistance grant to the Galveston Bay Foundation and Texans Together, two local environmental organizations in the Houston area. The grant will be used to provide input for EPA decision making regarding the San Jacinto River Waste Pits cleanup process. Funds from the grant will be used to hire a technical advisor to review ...

May 26, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. announces US$26 million bankruptcy settlement with chemical manufacturer

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Justice Department, and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York today announced that Chemtura Corporation has agreed to resolve its liabilities at contaminated sites across the U.S. for approximately US$26 million. The agreement settles Chemtura’s environmental liabilities under the Comprehensive Environmental ...

Aug. 25, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Former United Zinc and Associated Smelters Site in Iola, Kan., Added to Superfund’s National Priorities List for Cleanup

EPA today announced its decision to place the Former United Zinc & Associated Smelters Site in Iola, Kan., on the federal Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is a list of the nation’s hazardous waste sites with the highest priority for cleanup. These sites are eligible for extensive, long-term response action money authorized by Congress under the Superfund program. EPA ...

May 21, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Superfund Job Training Program Provides Opportunities for Syracuse Residents at Hazardous Waste Cleanups; Many Graduates to Work on Cleanup of Onondaga Lake

Tonight, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck will recognize the newest graduates of an EPA job training program designed to prepare students to fill jobs related to the cleanup of the Onondaga Lake Superfund site. EPA’s Superfund Job Training Initiative provides free job training to people living in communities affected by toxic waste sites. After ...

Sep. 12, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Air Pollutant Emission-Rate Software for Industrial Sources is Now Available

The need for accurate methods of quantifying industrial-source emission rates of methane and other greenhouse gases (GHGs), as well as other air pollutants, has never been greater, both domestically and abroad. Today, Minnich and Scotto, Inc. (www.msiair.net) announces the availability of e-Calc© – an emissions-calculation software package to yield air pollutant emission rates from a ...

Feb. 4, 2016

By Minnich and Scotto, Inc.

EPA places Washington county lead district-furnace creek on the federal cleanup priorities list

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced its decision to place the Washington County Lead District-Furnace Creek site in Washington County, Missouri, on the federal Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is a list of the nation's hazardous waste sites with the highest priority for cleanup. This site is eligible for extensive, long-term response action money authorized ...

Mar. 8, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA seeks comment on greener site cleanups

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public comment on a new strategy that would make cleanups at hazardous waste sites greener. The Superfund Green Remediation Strategy is an initial effort to outline key actions and related activities that can be undertaken to promote green remediation and to reduce energy use. EPA is taking comment on action items that fall into three major ...

Sep. 9, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

US$600m recovery act funding to clean up hazardous waste sites, create jobs

EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has announced US$600 million in new funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the cleanup of hazardous waste (Superfund) sites across the nation. In most cases, this recovery act funding will accelerate the hazardous waste cleanup already underway at the sites and fund new clean-up projects. It will also jumpstart the local economy by ...

Apr. 27, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

ENSR Authors New EPA Handbook on Remediation Treatment Technology

New Guidance on Cost-Effective Cleanup technology May 18, 2006 – Westford, MA - A team of ENSR Scientists and Engineers were the primary authors of EPA’s new handbook, “Off-Gas Treatment Technologies for Soil Vapor Extraction Systems (SVE): State of the Practice.” ENSR, a leading environmental firm with a worldwide remediation practice assisted EPA with the new handbook which serves as a ...

May 19, 2006

By AECOM

EPA Settles Hazardous Waste Cleanup Costs at Site of Former Dry Cleaner in Nelsonia

Jay-Cee Cleaners, a former dry cleaning business at 16163 Lankford Highway in Nelsonia, Accomack County, Va., and its former owner John L. Darby, have agreed to reimburse the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for costs the agency incurred while responding to the release of hazardous substances once used at the site. Mr. Darby has also agreed to resolve his failure to comply with EPA’s ...

Apr. 11, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA invites public to discuss ongoing investigation and cleanup at Hegler Zinc Smelter Site (IL)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 will hold open house-style availability sessions Thursday, Oct. 28, to discuss with residents the ongoing investigation and cleanup plan for the former Hegeler Zinc smelter Superfund site in Hegeler, Ill. There will be two sessions: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at Westville High School, 918 N. State St., Hegeler. EPA as well as state and local ...

Oct. 15, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA adds three hazardous waste sites to superfund’s national priorities list

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding three new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. EPA’s Superfund program investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. “Superfund cleanups take contaminated ...

May 9, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

QED Adds the Snap Sampler® to Its Line of Ground Water Sampling Products

Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc., announces the acquisition of the Snap Sampler passive ground water sampling technology from ProHydro, Inc. The Snap Sampler system is uniquely designed to provide high sampling accuracy while reducing sampling program costs. The Snap Sampler system (US Patent 7,178,415), ...

Sep. 25, 2018

By QED Environmental Systems, Inc