EDI says the new enclosed wastewater treatment process will eliminate the need for settling basins, ponds, and lagoons.
Specific measures include at least a 75 percent separation of the combined system into sanitary and stormwater components, a 50 percent expansion of the west side wastewater treatment plant’s treatment capacity, and the disconnection of catch basins.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service program expects 75,000 more acres expected to be enrolled in Wetlands Reserve Program.
The tactic is being used as the lesser of two difficult environmental outcomes, EPA Administrator Jackson said.
The energy- and water-intensive nature of oil sands, combined with climate change regulations, permitting obstacles and other challenges, are a recipe for diminishing revenues and returns.
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection petitions EPA to make the RRI Energy power plant across the Delaware River in Pennsylvania to install pollution controls to cut sulfur dioxide emissions.
The Hazard Mitigation, Material and Equipment Restoration contract award is first for Battelle under Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center’s omnibus contract.
Energy conservation grants helped to fund upgrade, including an aeration blower retrofit.
South Shore Charter Public School won a hybrid school bus, a green audit, and money for scholarship and class supplies.
Clean Vessel Act grants help marinas manage wastes and protect recreational waterways.
The company will pay $5 million and ensure that engines made in China that it plans to sell in the United States are certified to meet Clean Air Act emission requirements.
Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, and Merck have provided more than 100 drugs and clinical trial data to EPA to help validate its toxicity screening.
Extracts of cigarette butts in water protected steel that is widely used in the oil industry from rusting, even under harsh conditions.
EPA explains what products and methods have been approved for managing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The collaboration will provide up to $3.9 million over the next five years to help farms overcome obstacles preventing them from recovering and using biogas.
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.