Water


EPA Water Director Schedules Listening Session at ACE10

Cynthia Dougherty will start the agency's outreach campaign to build a new drinking strategy at the American Water Works Association conference.

SEC Gets DOE Cleanup. Demolition Work

Safety and Ecology Corporation will earn $2.5 million for remediating a nuclear laboratory in Argonne and demolishing a DOE complex in Oak Ridge.

EPA to End Endosulfan Use to Protect Farmworkers and Wildlife

Agency is in discussions with Makhteshim Agan of North America, the insecticide's manufacturer.

Judge Hands Down $850,000 Penalty, 5 Years' Probation in APPS Case

Employees of Cooperative Success Maritime, a ship management company, were falsifying record book logs and discharging oily bilge water into the ocean.

Team Offers Solutions to Arsenic-contaminated Water in Southern Asia

Deeper wells will be useful for safer drinking water, but not for irrigation water that relies on mechanized pumps that speed arsenic migration.



Air Force Taps AECOM for Restoration, Remediation Jobs

The Worldwide Environmental Restoration and Construction IDIQ contract, valued up to $3 billion, includes about 40 companies.

Operation Hope's Land Management Wins Buckminster Fuller Challenge

The group's management process re-establishes the balance between plant growth and the behavior of herding animals.

A&WMA Symposium Focuses on Power Plant Air Emissions

MEGA conference features 100 presentations on state-of-the-art methods and more than 60 exhibitors

Coast Guard Panel to Screen, Evaluate Oil Spill Technologies

Vendors and scientists are invited to submit white papers for consideration.

South Bronx Readies Workers for Gulf Spill Cleanup

Sustainable South Bronx certifies inner-city workers in HAZWOPER; several graduates will be working in Mississippi.

Texas City Turns Brownfields Challenge into Opportunity

A targeted community and stakeholder outreach program has enabled Arlington to earn additional grant funding for its redevelopment program.

$10 M Available to Combat Climate Change

In its second round of funding, EPA will accept proposals for the Climate Showcase Communities program until July 26.

Locals Get Superfund Job Training for Tar Creek Site

More than 20 citizens who live near the Tar Creek Superfund Site in Northeast Oklahoma have received training that will allow them to work to help clean up the site.

New Jersey Orders Exelon to Check Oyster Creek's Tritium Leak

Exelon Corporation must drill new test wells and more to investigate the 2009 leak of radioactive tritium into aquifers below the plant.

Data Centers Can Now Earn Energy Star Label

Data centers account for 1.5 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption at a cost of $4.5 billion annually.