Items Tagged with 'decontamination'

In a study published May 2 in Nature Water, researchers leverage heterogeneous catalysis to not just separate but fully destroy PFAS molecules in water.

Congress explores how America's 450,000 brownfield sites could become the critical infrastructure foundation for the nation's AI and technological future, revealing a bipartisan strategy to transform contaminated industrial lands.

The coexistence of nitrate increases the duration of natural attenuation because it creates new species of iron oxides that can sustain the degradation of organic contaminants.

Knowing the mass flux is critical for engineering a successful PRB treatment approach, whether it be for PFAS or any other contaminant class.

Here's a May 23 remediation news roundup surrounding Superfund and brownfield sites from the U.S. EPA.

Webinar: PFAS destruction products are increasingly commercially available, with technologies like Aquagga’s hydrothermal alkaline treatment, or HALT, and Regenesis’s PlumeStop, an in-situ colloidal activated carbon, or CAC.

On April 18 and 19, CNMI’s Inter-island Solid Waste Task Force (ISWTF) conducted a Zero Waste Visioning Workshop during which attendees reviewed recent collection and survey data, then discussed and identified solid waste management priorities.

A University of Maryland researcher and colleagues found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant roots.

Monticello hosts a former uranium disposal and processing site managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM).

In a study published this month in Nature Sustainability, a research group led by the University of Tsukuba has revealed that although the initial effects of increased sediment load in rivers caused by the Fukushima decontamination efforts were unsustainable, several factors worked in the region's favor to reduce these effects.