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Leveraging the Remedial Design Characterization (RDC) Process to Develop Surgical Designs and Manage Expectations
Our success in remediating overburden impacts in source and plume areas using slurry injections can be traced to proper injection equipment, surgical injection plans (developed during the Remedial Design Characterization process, covered in Webinar #5), and flexible and innovative implementation methodologies. Slurries can be difficult to inject into the subsurface (would you believe that a sand ...
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Tetra Tech Awarded $100 Million Environmental Remediation Contract for the U.S. Navy
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $100 million remedial action contract by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Atlantic Division. Through this 5-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, Tetra Tech will provide environmental remediation services primarily for the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps installations. This single ...
By Tetra Tech
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PEN announces report on contaminated site remediation
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Projecton Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) announced the availability of an article entitledNanotechnology and In situ Remediation: A review of the benefits and potential risks, whichdiscusses the use of nanomaterials in the environmental cleanup process. According to thearticle, nanomaterials have the potential to reduce the costs and time of ...
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EPA Region 7 Provides Additional $2.5M to Joplin, Mo., to Continue Post-Tornado Residential Yard Remediation Work
EPA Region 7 is providing an additional $2.5 million to the City of Joplin, Mo., for the continued cleaning and restoration of lead- and cadmium-contaminated residential yards disturbed by the May 2011 tornado and subsequent recovery efforts. The new federal funding comes from EPA’s Superfund program, through a cooperative agreement with the city. Under that agreement, EPA provided an ...
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Confronted publicly, Chevron CEO John Watson misleads shareholders over $19 billion Ecuador liability
Confronted publicly about a $19 billion Ecuador liability for causing environmental damage, Chevron CEO John Watson continued an increasingly personal campaign to mislead shareholders and hide his personal conflicts of interest over the case, representatives of the rainforest communities charged. “John Watson’s public comments in New York about the mounting risk posed by the Ecuador ...
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EPA Issues Record of Decision for the Madison County Mines Superfund Site Operable Unit 5
EPA Region 7 today issued the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Madison County Mines Superfund Site Operable Unit 5, Catherine Mines and Skaggs Tailings subsites, located in Madison County, Mo. The ROD identifies the selected cleanup methods for the mine waste located at the site. The overall strategy of the selected remedy is to cover consolidated mine waste, soils, and sediment with ...
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EPA selects Black & Veatch for US$150 million contract to remediate contaminated sites in eight southeastern states
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4 has awarded Black & Veatch a remedial action contract for up to 10 years and US$150 million. The contract enables the company to continue critical contaminated site remediation work in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina. “Past industrial or agricultural development practices ...
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Soil management in China and the EU
Following rapid urbanisation, management of contaminated soil has become a political priority in China. In this study, researchers reviewed the current system in China as compared to Europe and provide recommendations for the sustainable management of soil. China’s rapid economic growth, and the accompanied urbanisation, has come at a considerable cost to the environment. In the late ...
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Canadians warned About Chevron`s Machinations, Says environmental group
The internationally-respected Canadian and Brazilian courts can "put an end to Chevron's rope-a-dope strategy" to evade accountability for the widespread human suffering it caused in the Ecuadorian rainforest by illegally discharging billions of gallons of toxic waste, a worldwide environmental group said today in a blog on its website. A group of Ecuadorian indigenous and farmer communities ...
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IAQ Marketing Expert to Speak at Several Upcoming IAQA Chapter Meetings
New ways to market your indoor air quality (IAQ) business in a slowly recovering economy will be the subject of the upcoming presentations. The founder of the IAQ industry’s only dedicated marketing and public relations firm, Cochrane & Associates, will be presenting new marketing methods to members of the Philadelphia, Houston and Phoenix chapters of the Indoor Air Quality Association ...
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Enviro-Equipment, Inc. and AEG Carolinas Section Offers Free Environmental Equipment Training to Geologists and Geology Students
Enviro-Equipment, Inc., a leading supplier of environmental sampling equipment and supplies, held a free training seminar at their lab in Charlotte, NC on Saturday, March 19, 2011. Sponsored by the Carolinas Section of The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG) to provide educational opportunities for its members, the program was presented to environmental professionals ...
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Enviro-Equipment, Inc. and AEG carolinas section offers free environmental equipment training to geologists and geology students
Enviro-Equipment, Inc., a leading supplier of environmental sampling equipment and supplies, held a free training seminar at their lab in Charlotte, NC on Saturday, March 19, 2011. Sponsored by the Carolinas Section of The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG) to provide educational opportunities for its members, the program was presented to environmental professionals ...
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Tetra Tech Awarded $225 Million USACE Louisville District Environmental Remediation Contract
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $225 million contract to provide a broad spectrum of environmental restoration and remediation services for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District. Five large business teams will share in the contract ceiling value. The new program has a two-year base period and two ...
By Tetra Tech
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Toxic Mold at the Center of a $64 Million Lawsuit
Last week the New York Post reported that a husband and wife have filed a $64 million suit accusing their former landlord of using toxic mold to force them out of their rental property. The property, located in TriBeCa, New York, had suffered heavy water damage in 2008. The property was purchased by a firm in 2006 who according to court filings had tried to buy out the couple’s lease. ...
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Advice for Texas Vacation Property Owners to Prevent Costly Moisture Damage and Mold
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer vacation. Many people with vacation properties in Texas and along the Gulf Coast have now left their second homes for what may be weeks or even months. Unfortunately, these seaside homes, condominiums, and country ranches can turn into a costly nightmare if water damage occurs while people are away. Even a small water leak can turn into a major ...
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Homeowners warned to check for oil tank leaks
Homeowners across the South West are being warned to check their oil storage tanks this winter to help save money and the environment. The Environment Agency is urging residents across the region to check their heating oil storage tanks, especially in the wake of the high winds that battered everyone during the St Jude storm, to help avoid expensive leaks or spills which can also harm the ...
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TerraTherm Recipient of 2014 Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) Awards
Environmental Business Journal (EBJ), a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry, has honored 50 companies for revenue growth, acquisitions, innovative project designs, technology applications, new practice areas, social contributions and industry leadership in 2014. TerraTherm, Inc. is pleased to announce that it was ...
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Small business owners call for honest and thorough keystone pipeline examination
Today, businesses across the nation urged the White House and State Department to conduct an honest, thorough assessment of the Keystone Pipeline. In a letter organized by the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), business owners and their supporters raised concerns about the potential economic and environmental consequences of the pipeline’s construction. Representatives from ...
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Ion Exchange Resins for Water Purification, Metal Separation, Catalysis, and Column Chromatography
Alfa Chemistry, the US-located material supplier, recently announced the launch of a new product line, ion exchange resins, for individual scientists, labs, and organizations worldwide. These newly released ion exchange resins cover various categories, including but not limited to: adsorbent resin, catalyst resin, chelating resin, chromatographic media, color changing resin, inert resin, mixed ...
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ASEAN: SLP Environmental Offer Soil and Groundwater Contamination Remediation Services
Phase 3 Environmental Remediation (Site Clean-Up) is the process of cleaning up polluted sites by treating, immobilizing or removing contaminants present in soil and groundwater at the project site with the ultimate objective of reducing risks to human health and ecological systems to acceptable levels. SLP Environmental Consultants specialize in utilizing the latest quantitative environmental ...
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