With just a few days' notice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set a public hearing on its temporary permitting plan, which will be used for large greenhouse gas emitters in states that aren't ready to manage the process.
Students will be judged on both their ability to create a positive, measurable solution to a local sustainability issue or challenge using scientific methodology and their ability to explain how the solution can be replicated by other communities.
Navy mandates the use of new assessment tool, co-developed with Battelle, in feasibility studies at all of its remediation sites.
U.S. Geological Survey and Michigan State University study applies NOAA models to determine the pathways of contaminants and indicator bacteria.
EPA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the U.S. Department of Transportation will provide sustainable design assistance to Boston, Jefferson City, Hartford, Charleston and Little Rock.
Global Water Intelligence predicts the industry will not exceed its 2007 performance of 7.5 million cubic meters per day until 2012.
The company's technology turns wood chips and algae into methane and organic fertilizer.
EPA and other panelists will discuss technical tools and support to local watershed groups.
The InterAcademy Council, an Amsterdam-based organization, says the International Panel on Climate Change should establish an executive committee with an executive director to strengthen its procedures.
This tool introduces water utilities to the potential impacts of climate change.
Recommendation #6 from the Chemical Emergencies Work Group supports a bill using an approach to inherently safer technologies (IST) that the U.S. chemical industry opposes.
University of California Davis scientists said that most of the antibiotics used to treat dairy cows generally degrade in the top 12 inches of soil.
The agency has set the new deadline for Oct. 13 on the revisions to the total coliform rule.
New positions, recognition and calls to service top this week's summary of movement within the environmental industry.