contaminated site News
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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 dishes $69.3 million towards contaminated sites cleanup & community revitalization
Contaminated sites stemming from abandoned industrial and commercial properties are a problem. Other than being an eyesore, they can significantly prohibit the growth and economic development of their surrounding communities. It is for this reason the EPA announced on May 24th that they will be dispersing $69.3 million in grants towards new investments that will provide funding for communities to ...
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EPA Reaches Agreement with Companies to Remediate Contaminated Site in Ravenswood, West Virginia
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today TRC Companies, Inc., TRC Environmental Corp. and Ravenswood Holdings Company, LLC (TRC) have signed an EPA consent order outlining work to be done to prevent releases of cyanide into soil and groundwater for a 2.7 acre site in Ravenswood, W.Va., where a former aluminum manufacturing facility deposited contaminated waste. The TRC Spent ...
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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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EPA to consider the CTS site for proposal to superfund’s national priorities list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is moving forward with the process to propose the CTS of Asheville, Inc./Mills Gap Road Groundwater Contamination site to the National Priorities List (NPL) list of hazardous waste sites. This decision is based on a series of groundwater studies conducted over the past three years. A formal decision to propose the site may be made ...
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EPA Awards Santa Fe community college $300,000 for environmental job training program
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $300,000 to Santa Fe Community College to provide funding for its Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Program. The funds will be used to recruit, train and place unemployed or underemployed residents throughout the Santa Fe, New Mexico, region in environmental careers. Those selected to participate in the program will be ...
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Lake County (Colo.) receives $400K to clean up and redevelop contaminated sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Lake County, Colorado will receive a $400K Brownfields assessment grant to assess, clean up and redevelop contaminated properties in targeted redevelopment areas in Leadville and the county. The EPA Brownfields funds will be used by Lake County to conduct more than a dozen environmental site assessments in downtown Leadville, ...
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EPA announces $69.3 million to clean up contaminated sites and revitalize communities
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $69.3 million in grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting public health. "Restored Brownfield properties can serve as cornerstones for rebuilding struggling communities. These grants will be the first step ...
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EPA Adds Union County, AR, Refinery Site to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites; Seven hazardous waste sites added, five proposed nationally
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today added the MacMillan Ring-Free Oil site in Union County, Arkansas, 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, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. ...
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EPA Proposes to Add Union County Refinery Site to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites; Nine hazardous waste sites added, eight proposed nationally
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to add the MacMillan Ring-Free Oil site in Union County, Arkansas, 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, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the ...
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VTD unit to be installed…
econ industries CEO Reinhard Schmidt talking about indirect heated vacuum thermal desorption, his expertise was published in the latest CRONICLE issue, read the entire article here …. Furthermore Mr Reinhard Schmidt will be presenting at the upcoming Clean Up conference in Melbourne, Australia’s Nr. 1 conference for the contaminated site and remediation industry. He will lecture ...
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Almost US$7m in US recovery act funds to train workers to clean contaminated sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that workers across America will have the opportunity to receive job training to help protect human health and the environment. More than $6.8 million provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will be invested to train workers to clean up “brownfields” sites, which may be contaminated by hazardous chemicals or ...
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EPA Proposes to Add Wilcox Oil Site in Creek Co., OK, to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it proposes to add the Wilcox Oil Company site in Creek County, Oklahoma, 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, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste ...
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EPA awards $400,000 to Niagara County in Brownfields assessment grants
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Judith Enck today announced that Niagara County, New York has been awarded $400,000 to promote Brownfields revitalization at various locations throughout the County. She was joined in Niagara County by County Legislators Wm. Keith McNall, Rick Updegrove, and Lockport Mayor Mike Tucker at the former Dussault Foundry site in ...
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EPA administrator announces $76 million to clean up contaminated sites and revitalize communities
Today in Lansing, Michigan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced more than $76 million in new investments across the country that will redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and help create jobs while protecting public health. EPA’s brownfields grants are used to assess and clean up abandoned industrial and commercial properties like ...
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EPA administrator announces $2.9 million to clean up contaminated sites and revitalize Michigan communities
Today in Lansing, Michigan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced more than $76 million in new investments across the country that will help redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and help create jobs while protecting public health. EPA’s Brownfields grants are used to assess and clean up abandoned industrial and commercial properties ...
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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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US: New integrated cleanup initiative will help accelerate site cleanup and provide greater transparency for communities
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks the accomplishments of the Superfund program during the past 30 years, it is also taking steps to make the program stronger and more efficient to address the evolving challenges of cleaning up hazardous waste sites. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) was signed into law on December ...
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EPA awards Little Tokyo agency US$200,000 to clean up petroleum contamination
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today presented a $200,000 Brownfields grant to the Los Angeles, Calif.-based Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation to clean up an oil field drilling site in Historic Filipinotown. The center is partnering with the Pilipino Workers Center to cleanup and redevelop the site at 153 Glendale Boulevard. The partners plan to develop 48 ...
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EPA announces $69.3 million to clean up contaminated sites and revitalize communities
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces $69.3 million in grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting public health. In California, $1.2 million will be split among the cities of San Francisco, Emeryville, Chico and Grass Valley to assess and clean ...
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