In recent testing at the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground, INL researchers have been using ultraviolet-wavelength lasers to scrub surfaces clean of sulfur mustard gas and VX, a nerve agent.
Data of unaffected waters is critical to measuring ecological impact of Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill; agency also determines fishery disaster for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Four years after the National Academy of Sciences completed its review of EPA's draft dioxin reassessment, the agency responds with answers and new information.
Texas Tech professor says the highest concentrations of lead and arsenic were observed in soils from the poorer parts of town.
Facility names, addresses, images, maps, and links are now available for another 3,800 chemical facilities regulated under TSCA.
The tactic is being used as the lesser of two difficult environmental outcomes, EPA Administrator Jackson said.
Both EPA and MassDEP say enforcement actions have removed 10,000 gallons per day of sewage from storm drains.
The research team used a combination of laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and flame chemistry modeling to explore the decomposition and oxidation mechanisms of certain biofuels and the formation of harmful or toxic emissions.
The Hazard Mitigation, Material and Equipment Restoration contract award is first for Battelle under Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center’s omnibus contract.
Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, and Merck have provided more than 100 drugs and clinical trial data to EPA to help validate its toxicity screening.
Audubon will use the data as part of its on-the-scene recovery response.
After 12 months, researchers demonstrated substantial decomposition of pretreated plastic and no release of bisphenol A.
EPA explains what products and methods have been approved for managing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Washington Beef LLC will spend more than $3 million in civil penalty and equipment costs to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act on numerous occasions between 2003 and 2009.
The finished plant, with a capacity of 7.6 cubic meters per minute, will treat groundwater containing radioactive and biological contaminants.
Microbiologist Walter Mulbry's scrubber raceways collected 60 to 90 percent of the nitrogen and 70 to 100 percent of phosphorus from manure effluents.
EPA awards nearly $2.5 million for the commercialization of ingenious technologies through the Small Business Innovation Research program.
The Shelton Group surveyed 1,312 consumers, and about 13 percent said they will stop buying BP gas.
President's Cancer Panel notes that while the problem is not new, the awareness of a lack of government action has grown.