Sediment Remediation

U.S. Environmental Remediation Market Projected to Reach $38.5 Billion by 2033

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:15:41 -0400

Recent developments include the move to Phase 2 of environmental assessment at Illinois’ Jacksonville Developmental Center and PFAS pilot programs.

New Federal Guidance Speeds Up Lead Cleanups at Superfund Sites

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400

The EPA’s new approach focuses on cleaning up lead-contaminated residential soil at Superfund and hazardous waste sites.

GAO: EPA's Superfund Program Faces Funding Challenges Despite Recent Revival

Keatinga@bnpmedia.com (Austin Keating) — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:40:38 -0400

A new GAO report reveals EPA's Superfund program funding has declined 79% since 1999, even as contaminated sites could potentially be transformed into data centers to support America's AI infrastructure boom.

Bipartisan Bill Aims to Revive Tax Incentives for Brownfield Cleanup

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:06:21 -0500

Measure could impact an estimated 450,000 contaminated properties across the United States while spurring economic development in affected communities.

Study of radioiodine sorption and transport could help protect groundwater

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:46:46 -0400

New water treatment technology featured on the cover of ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.

East Waterway cleanup plan to clean Seattle's only river

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:22:44 -0400

After about 10 years of cleanup activities, EPA will evaluate the effectiveness of the cleanup and determine what additional work, if any, is necessary to achieve cleanup goals.

Montrose Environmental Group acquires Canadian environmental consultancy

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:47:22 -0400

Paragon Soil & Environmental Consulting, Inc., brings its soils, vegetation and wetlands development and reclamation expertise in Western Canada to Montrose Environmental Group.

PEER: EPA’s latest scientific integrity plan 'big hat, no cattle'

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:30:43 -0500

The draft policy repeatedly declares its intent to prevent political suppression of scientific information, but Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) say the policies lack concrete rules.

$48 million settlement reached for Superfund site cleanup, dozens of wells to be tested for contamination

Tue, 16 May 2023 14:25:05 -0400

Here's the latest remediation news surrounding Superfund and brownfield sites from the U.S. EPA.

Secretary Haaland announces Infrastructure Law funding for land, water restoration

Mon, 08 May 2023 12:07:28 -0400

Framework will put people to work in locally led landscape restoration projects driven by collaborative partnerships while advancing climate resilience.

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.

Weekly Roundup: EPA solid waste office without a leader, IRS Superfund excise tax and more

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:13:26 -0400

Brownfield news map - April 17: Here’s the latest remediation news surrounding Superfund and brownfield sites.

Indonesia signs memorandum with US EPA to increase environmental cooperation

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:24:52 -0400

Many Indonesian environmental regulations have been inspired by US EPA regulations, which have served as an academic reference for Indonesian environmental regulations since the early 2000s.

Hazardous chemical truck crashes are more frequent, deadly than train derailments

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:11:14 -0500

Less than two weeks after train cars filled with hazardous chemicals derailed in Ohio, a truck carrying nitric acid crashed on a major highway outside Tucson, Arizona.

Global soil scape filter technology market report 2022: Growing demand for wastewater treatment boosts sector

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:51:11 -0500

The rising need for organic and affordable methods of wastewater treatments on a small scale and large scale is fueling the growth of the global soil scape filter technology.

USGS releases data regarding legacy groundwater contaminant plume in Wyoming's Little Wind River

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:40:20 -0500

Areas of focused groundwater discharge identified by the fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing surveys corresponded closely with areas of elevated electrical conductivity.

Why repairing gullies is the quickest way to improve the Great Barrier Reef's water quality

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:11:35 -0500

Gullies make a spectacular sight but are a disaster for the land, the reef and the rivers that connect them.

Attorney advocates for Green Amendments to address Clean Water Act deficiencies

Keatinga@bnpmedia.com (Austin Keating) — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Watch: Maya K. van Rossum talks about the new edition of her book, The Green Amendment, as well as why she is working to pass one in all 50 states.

Pennsylvania announces civil penalty for Falcon pipeline sediment pollution

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:56:33 -0400

Shell Pipeline Company has agreed to pay a $670,000 civil penalty. Of the total payment to DEP, $479,464 will go into the commonwealth’s Clean Water Fund and $211,875 will go into the Encroachments Fund.

Suspended sediment reduced by rapid revegetation after Fukushima decontamination

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0400

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.