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Public policies for contaminated site cleanup: evidence from a survey of the Italian public
Cleaning up contaminated sites is currently considered one of the most important environmental policy priorities in many countries. Remediation of contaminated sites is attractive because it reduces risks to human health and ecological systems, and brings a host of potential social and economic benefits. Public programmes are deemed necessary by the law and in practice to address contamination at ...
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Who will do the Cleanup? (Contaminated Sites Report 2007)
To better understand Canada’s current capacity to meet this unique labour demand, ECO Canada undertook this study in early 2006. Our work was guided by a 29-member National Steering Committee from government, industry, and academia. In addition, a full-day National Forum on Contaminated Sites was held in Vancouver on March 28, 2006 to gain support and gather comments on the project from ...
By ECO Canada
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Building and breaking a bridge of trust in a Superfund site remediation
Trust is widely recognised as a key variable in perceptions and decision-making about environmental risks. However, most considerations of trust treat it as a simple two-agent relationship. Based on an analysis of a contaminated site cleanup in New Jersey, we identify a more complex construction of trust formed between multiple stakeholders. We refer to this construction as 'bridging'. In the ...
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DE HSCA Environmental Standards
The Delaware Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act (HSCA): DE HSCA Environmental Standards & Regulations The Delaware Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act (DE HSCA Environmental Standards) environmental standards for risk assessment, clean-up, and remediation planning for polluted sites are determined by the DNREC Division of Waste and Hazardous Substances. These standards enable DNREC to oversee the ...
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High-Resolution Site Characterization with Multilevel Systems
Within the last few years, the U.S. EPA added a new focus area on high-resolution site characterization (HRSC) to their Contaminated Site Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN) website. The U.S. EPA’s definition of HRSC is: “High-resolution site characterization (HRSC) strategies and techniques use scale-appropriate measurement and sample density to define contaminant distributions, and the ...
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Site Remediation Technology InfoBase: A Guide to Federal Programs, Information Resources, and Publications on Contaminated Site Cleanup Technologies, Second Edition
Untitled Document DoD Environmental Quality Mission and Challenges The Department of Defense’s Environmental Quality Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation (EQ RDT&E) program is based on four requirements that constitute the pillars of DoD’s environmental security mission. DoD is required to: (1) Cleanup hazardous wastes ...
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Transfer Your Environmental Risks to a Third Party
Remediation of contaminated sites often is costly and time-consuming, diverting scarce corporate resources from a company’s core operations. Moreover, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and recent Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board rules and standards governing accounting for and reporting of environmental liabilities (e.g., FIN 47 Accounting for Conditional Asset ...
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When Supply does not Meet Demand (Contaminated Sites Report 2008)
During the next few decades, federal, provincial, and municipal governments, as well as the private sector, will commit large sums of money to clean up contaminated sites across Canada. A combination of regulatory and economic drivers will keep the sector buoyant, resulting in a strong demand for labour to work on contaminated sites. Between 2004 and 2019, the federal government has committed up ...
By ECO Canada
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Vinyl Chloride Bioremediation In Central Ohio - Case Study
Site Summary: CL-Out® bioremediation removed vinyl chloride and other chlorinated solvents found in ground water at a former automobile repair shop. The solvents were thought to have been released from an underground storage tank (UST). After the UST and associated contaminated soil were removed, CL-Out bioremediation was implemented to reduce the levels of contamination to site-specific ...
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Case Study: Aerobic Cometabolism of Vinyl Chloride in Central Ohio
Site Summary: Chlorinated solvents were found in ground water at a former automobile repair shop. The solvents were thought to have been released from an underground storage tank (UST). After the UST and associated contaminated soil were removed, CL-Out® bioremediation was implemented to reduce the levels of contamination to site-specific cleanup goals. Geology and Hydrogeology The site is set in ...
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A Citizen`s Guide to Innovative Treatment Technologies
What are innovative treatment technologies? Treatment technologies are chemical, biological, or physical processes applied to hazardous waste or contaminated materials to permanently change their condition. This Citizen’s Guide focuses on treatment technologies for soil, sludge, sediment, and debris. Treatment technologies destroy contaminants or change them so that they are no longer hazardous ...
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The Elbe flood in August 2002 - Occurence of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/F) and dioxin-like PCB in suspended particulate matter (SPM), sediment and fish
Abstract As a result of extreme precipitation in August 2002 major flooding occurred in the catchment area of the rivers Elbe, Vltava (Moldau) and Mulde. Pollutants from industrial sites and from municipal sewage treatment works (STW) entered the Elbe and led to a serious pollution problem in the river. PCDD/F concentrations (in pg WHO-TEQ/g dw) in SPM ranged from 7-150, in sediments from 3-140; ...
By QuoData GmbH
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Phytoremediation of chromium from tannery wastewater using local plant species
Phytoremediation, which is an emerging technology for cleaning up contaminated sites, is cost effective and has aesthetic advantages and long term applicability. The technology involves efficient use of plant species to remove, detoxify or immobilize contaminants in a growth matrix (soil, water or sediments) through natural processes. For this study, swamp smartweed (Polygonum coccineum), ...
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Risk-Based Environmental Standards for Kansas
The Risk-Based Standards for Kansas is a manual that details the processes of instating site-specific and chemical-specific clean-up goals for groundwater, soil and indoor air (Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 2010). The United States Environmental Protection Agency and other technical resources directives were used to determine the clean-up goals. An Environmental Workgroup ...
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What Effect Does E-Waste Have On Groundwater?
Groundwater is one of the most precious resources on Earth. Its yields supply water to nearly every community in the country, and without it, most of us would be driven to drastic measures to accommodate drought conditions. In fact, that very situation is happening in communities across the nation. As groundwater is increasingly negatively affected by a number of environmental factors, ...
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