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Company to Reduce Hazardous Emissions from Mississippi Facility

December 18, 2007

Comments Sought on Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program

December 13, 2007

Study Finds Potential in Nanotube-producing Bacteria

December 10, 2007

Oil-repelling Material Shows Promise for Hazardous Waste Cleanup

December 4, 2007

Superfund Settlement to Cost San Bernardino County $11 Million

November 10, 2007

Washington State Repeals Old Oil-spill Laws

November 9, 2007

Maximizing Your Monitoring Power

October 1, 2007By M. Y. Z. Aboul Eish, Ph.D., Robert H. Clifford, PhD

Online water-quality analyzers offer time-saving solutions for dealing with pending EPA regulations related to nutrients in wastewater and water

As water and wastewater facilities prepare for pending U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) criteria on water nutrient levels, online monitoring systems are proving to be an effective and efficient means of regulating the parameters.

Survival of the Fittest

October 1, 2007By Danielle Duclos

Conflicts between water resource development and wildlife protection ramp up across the country

Despite the common goal of environmental protection, federal agencies lately stand divided over the best use of our natural resources – to protect wildlife habitats or to expand water resource development for the future. More and more, these issues are splintering the industry into two camps supportive of either the Clean Water Act or the Endangered Species Act.

The Public's Health Gets Taken to the Cleaners

October 1, 2007By Laurie Earl

Seeking a new approach to deal with groundwater pollution caused by dry-cleaning chemicals

Is Your Stormwater System a Washout?

September 1, 2007By Richard E. Ayres, JD

A guide to ensuring your pollutant removal system doesn't unintentionally release contaminants

Throughout the world, thousands of stormwater pollutant removal systems are being installed in an effort to prevent watercourses from being polluted. As supply has risen to meet demand, a variety of proprietary, chamber-based systems have emerged, including hydrodynamic separators, which are designed to settle out and store sediments and associated pollutants, preventing them from being discharged to the natural environment.

ABCs of CWT

July 1, 2007By Drew Frye

Centralized waste treatment: the guidelines for treating liquid wastes and how they affect you

As a part of the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to provide effluent guidelines to particular industries, whether they discharge wastewater to surface water or publicly owned treatment works (POTW).

Cleanup Cost-cutter

June 1, 2007By Bob Kelley

A guide to the most efficient oxygen-release compound to use in the enhanced bioremediation of contaminated soil and groundwater

Unfortunately, many of the advances in our industrialized world have come at great expense to our environment. Currently, one of the biggest environmental problems in the United States and other developed nations is the contamination of soil and groundwater caused by accidental releases of hazardous chemicals and petroleum hydrocarbons.

Mercury's Rising Impact

June 1, 2007By Constance L. Senior

This contaminant, a combustion byproduct of power plants, is increasingly polluting land and water through air-borne deposition

Mercury is getting a lot of attention, both in the popular press and in state and federal regulatory agencies. Combustion systems, like coal-fired power plants, industrial boilers, incinerators, and cement kilns, are sources of mercury emissions to the air. This article outlines the mercury emission regulations that apply to different combustion systems and the best demonstrated means to control these emissions from combustion sources. This article focuses on utility and industrial combustion systems because they are the highest emitters and face the greatest reductions and tightest scrutiny.

On the Lookout

June 1, 2007By Paul C. Simonetta

Paying attention to often ignored wastewater sources, such as cooling towers, can help your facility stay in compliance

Many facility environmental managers believe that their wastewater compliance requirements are properly managed when discharges from “production-related operations and equipment” are permitted. However, other discharge sources, such as building- or facility-related utilities that provide support to company operations, may require permitting or be subject to other regulatory requirements.

Taking Cities by Storm

May 1, 2007By Kimberly Paggioli

A state-of-the-art drainage system helps municipalities in flat locales decrease the volume and duration of street flooding

If Buddy Holly, the 1950s rock musician, helped put Lubbock, Texas, on the map, heavy rains and flooding have done their best to take it off. So, when a warning like the one quoted below is published, this major city located in the Texas Panhandle takes it very seriously.