• Fumigation Air Quality Permit Request Dropped in NC

    The division had planned to hold a new public comment period and public hearing to enable additional input for the draft air quality permit. DEP reported that most of 1,100 comments received since Feb. 23 were opposed to issuing the permit. 04/03/2018

  • U.S. Steel Settles CWA Case Involving Wastewater Spill

    A consent decree was filed in federal district court in the Northern District of Indiana that requires U.S. Steel to pay more than $600,000 as a civil penalty and to reimburse EPA and the National Park Service for response costs incurred after an April 2017 spill of wastewater containing hexavalent chromium that entered a waterway flowing into Lake Michigan. 04/03/2018

  • U.K. Government Announces Drink Container Deposit Return Scheme to Reduce Litter

    “It is absolutely vital we act now to tackle this threat and curb the millions of plastic bottles a day that go unrecycled,” Environment Secretary Michael Gove said. “We have already banned harmful microbeads and cut plastic bag use, and now we want to take action on plastic bottles to help clean up our oceans.” 04/02/2018

  • A nuclear waste cask is loaded onto a barge during the Sandia National Laboratories "triathlon." (Photo courtesy Sandia National Laboratories)

    Sandia Details 'Transport Triathlon' Results

    The eight-month test involved a waste transportation and storage cask fresh off the assembly line being loaded with three surrogate fuel rod assemblies from the United States, Spain, and South Korea and then traveling from Spain to Colorado and back again by truck, ship, and train. 03/29/2018

    • Hazmat
  • Deadline Nears for Michigan Energy Excellence Awards

    Anne Armstrong Cusack, Michigan Agency for Energy acting executive director, says the contest "is a chance to celebrate leaders in innovation all over the state. Past winners have cut energy usage without sacrificing productivity or comfort. They have seen firsthand that the cheapest, most reliable, and greenest energy is the energy you don't need." 03/29/2018

    • Facility Safety
  • State Study of Mohawk River Ice Jams Announced

    The study will analyze storm and ice-jam flood mitigation needs in high-risk areas, including Schenectady, N.Y., which experienced ice-jam flooding in February 2018. The study will include recommendations to mitigate future hazards on the Mohawk River and other waterbodies across New York state. 03/27/2018

    • Disaster Preparedness
  • Analysis Links West Texas Ground Movement to Oil Drilling

    Alarming movement is linked to prolonged oil production and is a danger to residents, roads, railroads, levees, dams, pipelines, and groundwater, the authors concluded. 03/26/2018

    • Oil and Gas
  • The researchers successfully tested the method at a Colorado well field containing place methane leak sources. (Stephanie Sizemore and Ian Coddington/NIST illustration)

    New Method Shown for Detecting Methane Leaks Inexpensively

    As described in their paper, the researchers tested this method successfully on a Colorado well field containing placed methane leak sources. 03/26/2018

    • Oil and Gas
  • Volvo's Sales of Electric Buses Top 4,000

    Volvo Buses has now sold more than 4000 electrified Volvo buses to customers around the world, the company announced March 14, saying its latest order is for 90 hybrid buses from Brussels. 03/21/2018

  • Vestas Signs Agreement for Composite Blades Made in China

    The V150-4.2 MW turbines' blades are 73.7 meters, or 242 feet, long, and they have the industry's tallest steel tower, according to Vestas. 03/19/2018