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- Scientists show how tainted blood thinner turned deadly
- PARIS AFP — An international team of researchers racing against the clock have figured out how tainted batches of the blood thinner heparin slipped past safety screens to kill dozens of patients in the United States and Germany, according to a pair of studies released Thursday. The scientists, led...
- Research articles 2008-04-23
- Reverse Osmosis Systems Treat Pharmaceutical Drinking Water Contaminants
- AP Investigation Unveils Prescription Drug Remnants; Findings Prompt Increased Concern Over Water Treatment Methods HANOVER PARK, Ill. -- A breaking investigation by The Associated Press found that at least 41 million Americans are being exposed to trace pharmaceuticals in their drinking water supplies. This report signals that now...
- Research articles 2008-03-11
- Parks need more protection
- When Congress passed the National Park Service Organic Act in 1916, the stated purpose of setting aside nature's wonders was to "conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- Counter contamination an uphill battle: a groundwater cleanup project at Fort Riley needed some extra Army muscle to conquer an uphill plume.
- It's one thing to have a large contaminated groundwater cleanup project on your hands; it's another thing to find an additional area of contamination in the process of cleaning up the first one--especially when the new problem will be an uphill battle. Literally. ...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Culligan Helps You Drink in Facts About Your Water
- Tap into Home Water Quality Did you know that 86% of single-serve drinking water bottles (almost 7,000 tons daily) do not get recycled and end up in landfills or incinerators?(1) As part of the "go green" effort, consumers countrywide are being encouraged to part with single-serve bottled water and...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- General Population Unlikely to Suffer Health Effects From 9/11 Air Exposures, Risk Analysis Study Says
- MCLEAN, Va. -- "Except for inhalation exposures that may have occurred on 9/11, and a few days afterward, the ambient air concentration data suggest that persons in the general population were unlikely to suffer short-term or long-term adverse health effects caused by inhalation exposures," scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection...
- Research articles 2007-12-10
- Profiles in Business: Seldon Laboratories
- A company specializing in Nanotechnology. "Nano" is from a Greek word meaning small, and in today's scientific community small is one billionth of a meter. A paper clip weight of particles this size would cover a football field. Led by co-founder, Chris Cooper, Seldon scientists devoted five years to altering...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- HAFB to redraw its map showing pollution plume
- LAYTON -- Hill Air Force Base is getting ready to redraw the map of a two-lobed plume of shallow groundwater contamination in Layton. And though it may come as a surprise to some residents to find the plume is bigger than the current map shows, Hill officials want...
- Research articles 2007-08-20
- Gradient Scientist Wins the Harold Jan Schoemaker Award
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Eric J. Wannamaker of Gradient Corporation has won the 2007 Harold Jan Schoemaker Award given by the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research IAHR to the authors of the published paper judged the most outstanding in the two years preceding the IAHR Congress. His winning paper,...
- Research articles 2007-07-09
- EPA to Probe Public Health Effects of Perchlorate, MTBE
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to investigate the impacts of two water contaminants – perchlorate and MTBE – on human health. Most of the perchlorate manufactured in the United States is used as the primary ingredient...
- Research articles 2007-04-12
- Is water supply drugged?
- Residues of birth control pills, antidepressants, painkillers, shampoos and a host of other compounds are finding their way into the nation's waterways, and they have public health and environmental officials in a regulatory quandary. On the one hand, there is no evidence the traces of the chemicals found...
- Research articles 2007-04-03
- Bay contamination could affect food chain.(sediments)(Brief article)
- NOAA has released an online report stating that the Chesapeake Bay has pockets of water that are contaminated by sediment from windblown dust, storm runoff, chemical spills, and direct discharge. For the report, titled "Magnitude and Extent of Contaminated Sediment and Toxicity in Chesapeake Bay," researchers...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Hudson Estuary Contaminants Not Higher Since 9/11
- NEW YORK, New York ENS — --> The collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001 caused no major increase in concentrations of two groups of contaminants, NOAA found in a recent analysis of sites in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary. The findings indicate that concentrations...
- Research articles 2007-02-12
- Ivey International Inc. Earns North American Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award
- To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORSContact: Stacie Jones of Frost & Sullivan, +1-210-247-2450, Stacie.jones@frost.com; or George Bud Ivey, President & Senior Remediation Specialist of Ivey International Inc., Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada, 1-800-246-2744, budivey@island.net PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Ivey International Inc. (http://www.iveyinternational.com) has earned the prestigious 2006 North American Frost...
- Research articles 2007-02-07
- Canada's New Government and Nova Scotia Invest $400 Million in the Environmental Cleanup of Sydney Tar Ponds and Coke Ovens.
- SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA, Jan 28, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Canada's New Government and the Province of Nova Scotia today announced an historic step that clears the way for the Sydney Tar Ponds and Coke Ovens sites cleanup to begin this spring. After carefully...
- Research articles 2007-01-28
- Contaminants in Chesapeake Bay Sediments Mapped
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The major portion of the Chesapeake Bay, called the mainstem, has minimal sediment contamination but major western tributaries of the bay show elevated contaminant levels, according to new research by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. Toxic contaminants...
- Research articles 2007-01-23
- Protecting buildings against bioterrorism—review of guidance and tools
- ABSTRACT Ever since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the subsequent anthrax incidents in the US, attempts have been made to thwart further attacks and other forms of terrorism. Attacks involving chemical and/or biological agents CBA are among the most dreaded because of the ease with which they...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Water
- Water: The EPA will monitor roughly 4,000 public water systems between January 2008 and December 2010 for up to 25 unregulated chemicals in the second cycle of its Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule UCMR. Currently, the EPA has regulations for over 90 contaminants. The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the EPA...
- Research articles 2006-12-31
- Cleaning up Hill pollution to take years, hefty funding
- HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- For decades, certain chemicals used at Hill Air Force Base were thrown out the back door or dumped in disposal trenches. That was back when cars were built without seat belts and ran on leaded gasoline, and people smoked menthol cigarettes to freshen...
- Research articles 2006-12-10
- EnviroMetal Technologies Inc. Announces New Technology License for Remediation of Trace Metal Contaminants in Europe and the United Kingdom
- Technology Removes Radionuclides and Hazardous Trace Metals, Such as Chromium, Arsenic and Lead, from Groundwater Resources WATERLOO, Ontario -- EnviroMetal Technologies Inc. ETI is pleased to announce it has reached a license agreement with the University of Waterloo to commercialize the University's in situ reactive treatment technology for removal...
- Research articles 2006-12-08
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