Training dogs to identify specific animal excrement, Auburn University is gathering data on species having the greatest conservation need.
Washing fecal contamination from hands should be investigated as a strategy to improve stored drinking water quality, researchers say.
The company will support the agency's Carlsbad Field Office and the Waste Isolation Pilot Project.
A former landfill near South Lake Tahoe, Calif., is releasing volatile organic compounds into Saxon Creek and the county and the Forest Service will be monitoring area groundwater and considering possible solutions.
How one environmental cleanup firm managed a sodium chlorate spill in an active rail yard from cradle-to-grave.
- By Geoffrey Brown
- July 05, 2010
Current conditions, especially given the absence of a significant amount of Deepwater Horizon/BP oil from the Loop Current, indicate that immediate threats to the Florida Keys, Miami and Ft. Lauderdale areas remain low.
Cutan, which increases a plant's resistance to water, is an efficient sorbent for organic compounds in soil, the study found.
EnergySolutions, Perma-Fix, Philo-Technics, and Studsvik will be awarded task orders for treatment over the next five years with a maximum contract value of $24.9 million.
The proposed rules, which also cover confidential business information, would require underground coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial waste landfills and magnesium production facilities to report their GHG emissions by the end of March 2012.
MEGTEC and HAASE Energietechnik AG provide VOCSIDIZER technology to help the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority meet low odor control limits.
The $3 million contract between the water authority and the company should help one of the water treatment plants comply with the Stage 2 Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
In new interim guidance, the agency is encouraging employees to be involved during Risk Management Program inspections.
The team reviewed the method used by EPA for calculating possible greenhouse gas releases from agricultural anaerobic lagoons and found that the estimates of methane may be underestimated by as much as 65 percent.
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Broward County and Hillsborough County changed two Superfund sites into a wide-ranging outdoor activities park and a multipurpose waste collection center and model airplane park, respectively.
Digital photography can replace certified smoke readers to measure opacity.
Florida Institute of Technology professor Virender Sharma has invented a product that can be used as an oxidant, disinfectant and coagulant.
The revised regulation requires CAFOs that discharge to seek coverage under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
With the simulation of heavy rainfall, E. coli increased slightly, the researchers said.
The task force looked at Nuclear Regulatory Commission actions in regard to tritium contamination and recommended ways to strengthen its response.