SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER
March 2013
No. 174
Table of Contents
MARKET
NEWS
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Developers to Bid Soon on Cleanup of Power Plant Site in Bronxville, NY
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UN:
Untested Household Products Containing Hormone Disrupting Chemicals Threat to
Human Health
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Automatic Spending Cuts Expected to Slow Cleanup of Hanford, Other Nuclear
Waste Sites
AROUND THE
WORLD
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China –
Government Acknowledges Dangers of Widely Used Chemicals, Emergence of “Cancer
Villages”
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Ireland
– Limerick City Council to Approve €5 Million Cleanup of Manufactured Gas
Plant Site
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Japan –
Cancer Risk Rises Slightly for Infants in Areas Hardest Hit by Fukushima
Crisis
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UK –
Cleanup Costs for Sellafield Nuclear Waste Site Reach
£67.5
Billion
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Russia –
Paper Mill Polluting Lake Baikal in Siberia to Be Closed, Shore Rehabilitated
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UK – VHE
Wins a £15 Million Contract to Clean Up Manufactured Gas Plant Site in
Blackpool
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Vietnam
- TerraTherm Wins USAID Contract to Clean Up Agent Orange Contamination
INDUSTRY
NEWS
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Dry
Cleaners in Laurelton, NY Contaminates Groundwater, Possibly Indoor Air
COMPANY
NEWS
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Three
Firms Win $20 Million Contract from USACE for Environmental Protection
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Perras
Environmental Control Wins Contract for Third Phase of Cleanup at GM Site near
St. Lawrence River