CINCINNATI -- Fluor Fernald, the contractor responsible for the environmental cleanup and restoration of the former uranium production site outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, received formal acceptance from the U.S. Department of Energy DOE on January 22, 2007, that its cleanup of the 1,050-acre site is now complete. As part of...
Byline: MARK A. HOFMANN WASHINGTON-How the U.S. Supreme Court decides a case involving what entities can be made to pay for environmental cleanups mandated by the Superfund law could impact the bottom lines of some companies. The high court agre Byline:...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pushing for a law aimed to help abandoned mine cleanup. While there are some dangers with the proposal, it's a worthwhile piece of legislation. Known as the Good Samaritan Watershed Act, the law woul ...
A pipeline spill at a peat bog occurred in Northern Alberta in the early 1970s Nipisi. Since most oil spill cleanup and remediation efforts have focused on marine environments, this offered an opportunity to monitor the efforts of cleanup and remediation in a freshwater wetland. Several methods were attempted to...
Byline: Joe Truini U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson was out West this month stumping for legislation that would make it easier for Good Samaritans to clean up some of the nation's 500,000 abandoned mines. ...
SENATE DEMOCRATS charged last week that the Bush administration has dramatically slowed the pace of cleanup at Superfund sites and is refusing to hold polluters responsible and make them pay for cleanup. "Unfortunately, the most important SENATE DEMOCRATS charged...
Acid mine cleanup may be going hightech if the U.S. Office of Surface Mining has anything to say about it.Acid mine cleanup may be going hightech if the U.S. Office of Surface Mining has anything to say about it.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. and Novartis Corp. have agreed to perform soil cleanup under an agreement with EPA and the U.S. Justice Department. The Ciba-Giegy Superfund site in the Toms River, NJ., will undergo a cleanup project estimated at more Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. and...
Pay-for-performance PFP cleanups pay out a total fixed price incrementally as measurable contamination reduction is produced. PFP cleanups reward contractors for quickly and efficiently reaching cleanup goals. The State of Oklahoma implemented PFP remediation at hydrocarbon-impacted sites in October 1997. The purpose of this paper is to present several case...
On December 31, 2000, a tank truck overturned on a sharp curve and emptied its load of #6 Fuel Oil into the East Walker River near Bridgeport, California. The paper describes the successful response in detail, specifically addressing the many issues that the Unified Command dealt with and resolved during...
Byline: Bruce Geiselman Private parties wanting to redevelop former military bases may play a larger role in environmental cleanups at soon-to-close facilities, according to a top Defense Department official. The Defense Department is un ...
THE BUSH administration said last week it is proceeding with a major cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs from New York's upper Hudson River, setting in motion one of the largest dredging operations in the nation's history. General Ele ...
Contingency planners, response officials, government agencies, and oil transporters share a keen interest in being able to anticipate oil spill response costs for planning purposes. Oil spill cleanup response costs depend on a variety of factors, most notably, location, oil type, spill size, and cleanup strategy, making it difficult to...
This study analyzes the risk perceptions of commercial and industrial mortgage lenders related to environmental contamination. Two research questions are addressed. The first is whether perceived risks vary with a property’s remediation/ cleanup status. The second is whether market conditions have an intervening effect on environmental risk. An analysis of...
Lockheed Martin Corp. will consider offers for almost half the land it owns in Middle River as it conducts a multi-million-dollar environmental cleanup of the site.Bethesda-based Lockheed will conduct a surgical cleanup of pollution hot spots at its 160-acre Baltimore County campus, officials said at a briefing in Middle River...
Staff State regulators are requiring Honeywell International to conduct a $448-million cleanup of Syracuse's Onondaga Lake, one of the nation's most polluted bodies of water. It is expected to take over seven years to clean up mercury and oth ...
CHARLESTON - Kanawha County will be one of the 38 areas in the nation to receive a Brownfields Assessment Pilot grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award will put $200,000 into assessment and planning for cleanup around the Kelly's CrCHARLESTON - Kanawha County will be one of the...
Prompted by a desire to get government out of pollution cleanups and the view that early action cuts costs and improves the environment, Corporate America is increasingly moving toward "voluntary" cleanups, experts say. Yet even as corporatiPrompted by a desire to get government out of pollution...
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