waste remediation News
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St. Louis Community College to Receive $192,300 from EPA to Recruit, Train and Place Workers in Green Environmental Jobs
St. Louis Community College (STLCC) has been selected to receive a $192,300 grant from EPA to recruit, train and place local unemployed and underemployed individuals in full-time sustainable green jobs in a range of environmental fields. The grant comes from EPA’s Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) program. Announcement of the grant was made this morning in St. ...
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EPA Selects CLIMB Community Development Corporation in Biloxi, Miss. for Job Training Grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that CLIMB Community Development Corporation in Biloxi, Miss. is one of 19 communities in 17 states and territories selected for approximately $3.6 million in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grants. Each grantee will receive up to $192,300 to operate environmental training programs to clean up Brownfields ...
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EPA Training Grants Create Job Opportunities Across the Country
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the selection of 19 communities in 17 states and territories for approximately $3.6 million in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grants. Each grantee will receive up to $192,300 to operate environmental training programs to clean up Brownfields sites in economically distressed communities. ...
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EPA Selects Florida State College at Jacksonville, Fla. for Job Training Grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Florida State College at Jacksonville, Fla. is one of 19 communities in 17 states and territories selected for approximately $3.6 million in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grants. Each grantee will receive up to $192,300 to operate environmental training programs to clean up Brownfields sites in ...
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EPA identifies three industries for financial obligations in cleanup of environmental releases
Action is a first step to ensure owners of these facilities, not taxpayers, foot bill for the cleanup of environmental releases WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken a significant step in an effort to help reduce the need for federal taxpayers to fund the cleanup of environmental releases. The agency has identified three additional industry sectors for which it will ...
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WESTON recognized with 2009 environmental business journal and climate change business journal achievement awards
The Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and the Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ) have awarded Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) 2009 Business Achievement Awards for projects incorporating sustainable cleanup solutions and sustainability principles. Project Merit: Remediation/Waste Management acclaim was awarded by EBJ for the safe implementation of a sustainable cleanup solution at ...
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EPA Adds Three Indiana Sites to Superfund Cleanup List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added three contaminated sites in Indiana to the Superfund National Priorities List: Beck’s Lake, a former automotive and hazardous waste dump in South Bend; the Garden City Ground Water Plume in Garden City; and the Keystone Corridor Ground Water Contamination site in Indianapolis. Superfund is the federal program used to investigate and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Proposed Cleanup Plan for Peterson/Puritan Superfund Site in Cumberland and Lincoln R.I.
EPA has released a Proposed Cleanup Plan for the Peterson/Puritan, Inc. Superfund site, Operable Unit 2 (OU 2), located in Cumberland and Lincoln, R.I. The main components of Operable Unit 2 include the J. M. Mills Landfill, the Nunes Parcel and an area between these two areas called “Unnamed Island.” The Site is located within the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. ...
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The Need to Issue Principal Threat Waste Contaminated Sediment Guidance Sediment Management Work Group1
The concept of Principal Threat Waste (PTW) was originally intended as an advisory process to be helpful in streamlining and focusing decision-making on appropriate waste management options in light of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act’s (CERCLA’s) preference for treatment “where practicable.” While prior U.S. Environmental ...
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