Soil Sampling

Microplastics from Advanced Fertilizers Pose New Environmental Challenge

Keatinga@bnpmedia.com (Austin Keating) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:20:09 -0500

As these fertilizers break down, they don't just release nutrients. They also shed microplastics into the soil.

EPA's Northeast Region Announces Superfund Cleanup Reviews

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:14:33 -0500

As the EPA continues its mission to protect public health and the environment, these reviews serve as crucial checkpoints in the ongoing effort to clean up America's most contaminated sites.

Tallahassee Exploration ordered to decommission sites in Alberta

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:02:54 -0400

The order comes in response to Tallahassee’s failure to comply with two previous orders issued in September and November 2023.

Environmental technology market to reach $1.2 trillion by 2032

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:57:00 -0500

The global demand for environmental technology solutions is being driven by the growing emphasis on environmental sustainability, strict rules on pollution management, and the need to combat climate change.

PEER: Santa Susana slated to remain major ecological hazard

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:40:45 -0500

PEER alleges state-supervised cleanup of Santa Susana was "superficial."

Sustainable, immediate and low-cost PFAS source treatment

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 11:03:35 -0400

These enhanced attenuation remedies replace less sustainable remedial methods like dig & haul or pump & treat, which create more PFAS waste materials.

EPA settlements resolve violations of toxic chemical reporting requirements

Tue, 09 May 2023 12:45:28 -0400

All six companies promptly corrected the EPCRA violations after EPA inspections and have filed required reports about their use or generation of toxic chemicals under EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) program.

Lower Neponset River Superfund site undergoes expedited investigation, cleanup

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:55:47 -0400

In the next few weeks, EPA will begin cleanup work at the Lewis Chemical Site in Hyde Park, Mass. to address polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination.

How metallophiles can help address heavy metal pollution from industrialization

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:56:33 -0400

Understanding how microbes withstand exposure to heavy metal concentrations that are toxic to humans and other organisms is foundational to the development of effective bioremediation techniques.

Remedial review: Effective treatment of Benzene, MTBE at petroleum sites

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 14:30:28 -0400

These results show that PetroFix is an effective tool for quickly reducing the risk-sensitive benzene and MTBE concentrations in groundwater and obtaining regulatory closures in short order for long-open sites.

‘Forever chemical’ levels on farms are low – but there’s no time to waste

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:29:41 -0400

Rather than labelling all biosolids as contaminated PFAS waste, the government’s new plan should ideally lay out ways to minimize damage done by forever chemicals in biosolids.

Landowners fear injection of fracking waste threatens West Texas aquifers

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:40:21 -0500

Injection of wastewater from fracking troubles David Shifflett, a farmer who irrigates his crops and draws his drinking water from the ground, which has started to heave and bulge in recent years.

Beyond Petrochemicals releases new data showing petrochemical disasters can happen anywhere

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:24:02 -0500

Today, in the wake of Congress’ first hearing on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Beyond Petrochemicals campaign released new data showing similar disasters are happening all over the United States.

CEP Renewables converts former brownfield into 17-megawatt solar project in New Jersey

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:25:06 -0500

In the 1990s, the former paper mill site was abandoned and fell into disrepair.

Toxic controlled burn impacts an already contaminated region

Keatinga@bnpmedia.com (Austin Keating) — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:38:50 -0500

On Tuesday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine gave an update on the Norfolk Southern 50-car train derailment that took place Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, and the subsequent controlled burn of toxic chemicals.

Summit Drilling Acquires Subsurface Environmental Technologies and Hill Environmental Group

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:05:35 -0500

SET and Hill, based in Bordentown, NJ, have decades of environmental contracting experience.

Sanexen wins environmental remediation bid for Rayrock Mine cleanup

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:07:47 -0500

The cleanup project will also tackle former satellite exploration sites around Rayrock, an old barge landing at Marian Lake, and a disused power line.

3D model shows how cadmium exposure may affect heart development

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 07:00:00 -0500

Exposure to low levels of cadmium can block usual formation of cardiomyocytes, which are the major type of cells that form the heart.

VLS Environmental Solutions acquires Texas Molecular

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:32:52 -0500

VLS Environmental Solutions has acquired Texas Molecular, one of the largest independent providers of industrial waste sequestration services in the United States.

UW researchers improving models for how PFAS flows through the ground

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:38:27 -0500

Modeling the movement of PFAS through the unsaturated zone has traditionally required a lot of guesswork and immense computational power. New work aims to change this.

Manto Sipi Cree Nation authorizes soil remediation program at Little Stull Lake

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:42:40 -0500

BWR can now proceed with the soil remediation as recommended by Pinchin and authorized by MECP.

Infrastructure bill commits $10 million to hazard identification, cleanup projects

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:16:22 -0400

On Tuesday, the Department of the Interior announced nearly $10 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for 17 project sites.

Los Alamos receives environmental remediation support from small businesses

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:58:35 -0400

N3B investigates legacy sites from LANL’s Manhattan Project and Cold War operations and addresses environmental impacts resulting from these operations.

Cook County announces $10 million to revitalize neighborhoods through brownfield remediation program

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:12:57 -0400

“Expanding and increasing the number of contaminated brownfield sites remediated, especially in the south and west suburbs, will help correct historical injustice,” says Director of the Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability Deborah Stone.

Project manager pleads guilty to false statements regarding lead contamination at city park

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0400

A project manager pleaded guilty in federal court today to misleading federal authorities about lead contamination in a Granby, Mo., city park after he was hired to conduct remediation at the site.

Soil remediation brings Oak Ridge closer to completion

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0400

An area of land in Oak Ridge will be added to the Manhattan Project National Historical Park thanks to the Office of Environmental Management’s cleanup efforts there.