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Contaminated land consultants urged to use new British Standard when soil sampling
Industry specialists working on contaminated land are being urged to use the new British Standard BS 10176 for soil sampling. BS 10176 was introduced in August 2020 but tests using old methods, which do not conform to the new standard, are still being accepted by regulators and assessors, which has led to concerns that its use is still only sporadic. “We’re seeing a lack of ...
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EPA to Begin Removal Action at Iowa-Nebraska Light and Power Former Manufactured Gas Plant Superfund Site in Norfolk, Neb.
The Removal Action for the Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Former Manufactured Gas Plant Superfund Site will begin on Jan. 20, 2014. The project will consist of building demolition, soil excavation and backfilling operations located at the corner of Norfolk Avenue and 7th Street, in Norfolk, Neb. The site work will result in closure of the southbound lane of 7th Street between Norfolk and ...
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Chevron`s New Ecuador witness linked to drug traffickers and bribery attempt
Chevron’s latest paid witness in the historic $19 billion Ecuador environmental case, disgraced former judge Alberto Guerra, has a long history of corruption and was dismissed from the bench in 2008 for his ties to drug traffickers, according to published reports. Chevron also admitted to the media – before it suddenly removed the statement from its blog – that it had promised ...
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EPA Region 7 to Host Informational Sessions March 4 and 5 for Big River Mine Tailings, Madison County Mines Superfund Sites
EPA Region 7 will host separate Public Availability Meetings next week in Park Hills and Fredericktown, Mo., to update area residents on the progress of sampling and remediating lead-contaminated residential properties and other cleanup work at the Big River Mine Tailings and Madison County Mines Superfund sites. Residents interested in the latest information about the Big River Mine Tailings ...
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EPA Completes Work at Newark, New Jersey Housing Project to Protect the Community from High Levels of Lead in Soil; 650 Tons of Lead-contaminated Soil Removed in $1.4 Million Cleanup to Protect Children from Lead Exposure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has completed the removal of lead-contaminated soil from the grounds of the Millard E. Terrell Homes public housing complex in Newark, New Jersey. In December 2012, high levels of lead were found in soil samples collected by the EPA at a playground area within the housing complex. The lead is likely to have come from old industrial facilities that once ...
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Soil clean up underway at New England site
EPA has been working closely with the Rhode Island Dept. of Environmental Management (RI DEM) and local officials during the removal of potentially hazardous materials at the Providence Barrel Site in Smithfield, R.I. Excavation of contaminated soils began in May, 2008. Last week, the transportation and disposal of the contaminated soil from the immediate Site began to take place. This week EPA ...
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EPA to begin final cleanup of recovery act-funded South Minneapolis arsenic site; Open House Aug. 26
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today that cleanup of arsenic-contaminated soil at nearly 500 South Minneapolis homes will begin after Labor Day. This project is supported by US$20 million in funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Residents pay nothing for the cleanup. From 2004 to 2008, an EPA Superfund team cleaned up 197 properties with arsenic levels ...
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Chevron used secret lab to hide dirty soil samples from ecuador court, say company documents
In an ever more stunning expose of Chevron's fraud before the Ecuador court, a U.S. federal judge has ordered the disclosure of documents that demonstrate Chevron used a secret lab in the United States to hide the existence of dirty soil samples taken from the company's contaminated former well sites in the Amazon. The documents also show that Chevron's scientific experts in the Ecuador trial -- ...
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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 ...
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Execution of Phase I and Phase II Environmental Due Diligence Studies for Commercial and Industrial Properties in Portugal, Greece and Romania. Independent Review of Phase I and Phase II Environmental Due Diligence Studies for Commercial and Industrial Properties in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Romania and Brazil. Design and Implementation of a Bioremediation Project for ...
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Advantages of On Site analysis: No 1 Sample Integrity
QROS analysers like to go on site, but can happily sit in a lab and produce high quality results in minutes. So we were concerned when these soil samples arrived recently at the QROS lab for same day analysis. Out of eight samples, two bottles were broken and three caps were loose. Also despite being in a cool box with three cold packs, the temperature in the box at 9° was only 2° cooler ...
By QROS Ltd
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New evidence that Chevron used U.S. professors to defraud ecuador court in $18 Billion environmental lawsuit
Chevron is refusing to deny that it defrauded Ecuador's courts by altering a key document to induce U.S. academic "experts" -- including a prominent professor at Rice University in Houston -- to endorse fake testing methods to hide the presence of massive quantities of cancer-causing toxins at the company's former well sites in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest. "We have smoking gun evidence that ...
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Soil testing to begin again at NL industries-Taracorp superfund site in Granite City, Illinois (IL)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will begin another round of soil sampling on properties that may be contaminated with lead from the former NL Industries lead smelter and battery recycling plant at 16th Street and Cleveland Boulevard in Granite City. The NL Industries-Taracorp site is located approximately two miles east of St. Louis and operated as a secondary lead smelter and refining ...
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Land use affects potential health risks of cadmium and lead soil contaminants
Exposure to polluted soil can affect human health, but the risk may vary depending on the soil type. A recent study has shown that the differing amounts of cadmium and lead that can be dissolved in the human digestive system can be predicted for contaminated agricultural, urban and woody habitat soils using a model. Its authors suggest this is a useful method for assessing the risks of ...
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EPA Region 6 Updates Its National Priorities List of Superfund Sites; One Site Added in Louisiana
The Environmental Protection Agency announced today, with support from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, that the EVR-Wood Treating /Evangeline Refining Company site near Jennings, Louisiana, has been added to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. The site, off Highway 97 and one mile north of I-10 in Acadia Parish, was home to wood-treating operations as well ...
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Results of Soil Sampling at Route 66 State Park near Eureka, Mo., Show No Significant Health Risks for Park Visitors, Workers
EPA Region 7 has concluded after considering new soil sampling data and new toxicity information for dioxin that the cleanup conducted in the 1990s at the Route 66 State Park near Eureka, Mo., remains protective of human health and the park's current uses can continue. Dioxin soil sampling in June 2012, conducted at the request of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), which owns ...
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U.S. Appellate Court Deals Chevron Expert Key Setback in $19 Billion Ecuador Case
A U.S. federal appellate court dealt Chevron another setback in its $19 billion Ecuador case by ordering the oil giant to turn over key discovery documents relating to an American technical expert accused by the plaintiffs of committing fraud on the Ecuador court. A three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans this week unanimously denied Chevron’s attempt to ...
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Continuing nightmare in Bhopal: CSE laboratory tests soil, water samples from Union Carbide
For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards. These are the findings of a study released here today by the New Delhi-based research and advocacy organisation, Centre for Science and ...
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EPA proposes to add Acadia parish facility to national priorities list of superfund sites - nine hazardous waste sites added, 10 proposed
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the EVR-Wood Treating/Evangeline Refining Company site, near Jennings, Louisiana, has been proposed to be added to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, ...
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EPA to Begin Next Round of Residential Yard Cleanups in Late September at Former United Zinc Superfund Site in Iola, Kan.
EPA Region 7 expects to begin its next round of residential yard soil remediation work during the week of September 21 at the Former United Zinc and Associated Smelters Superfund Site in Iola, Kan. EPA began testing residential soil for lead contamination at the site in 2006. Approximately 1,500 properties were tested by the time sampling concluded in 2007. Cleanups of properties with lead in ...
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