SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER
September 2012
No. 168
Table of Contents
MARKET NEWS
- EPA
Announces $69.3 Million in Grants to Clean Up Brownfields Sites
SPOTLIGHT ON
TECHNOLOGIES
- Premier
Environmental Technology Conference of DoD Cancelled for 2012, but Scheduled
for 2013
- New Tool
Introduced for High Resolution Vertical Mapping of Contaminated Sites
-
Researchers Find New Copper (II) Ion Biosensor to Be Accurate, Cost Effective
- Molecular
Sieve Technology Licensed to UOP by Sandia Labs Continues to Remove Cesium
from Fukushima Seawater
- Antea
Group Wins Patent for Enhanced Concentrating Oxygen Soil Vapor Extraction
System that Creates Zero Emissions
AROUND THE
WORLD
- Australia
- Copper from Abandoned Mine Polluting Creeks
- China -
Heavy Metal Contamination to Be Cut in Key Areas by 15 Percent over Next Three
Years
- China -
Information Technology Industry Causing Copper Contamination of Water
- Japan -
Radiation from 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Accident Causes Mutations
in Butterflies
- Vietnam
– Tetra Tech to Clean Up Agent Orange Contamination at DaNang, One of
Number of Dioxin-Contaminated Sites
INDUSTRY
NEWS
- Court
Orders NRC to Conduct Further Study of Waste Problem before Approving New
Nuclear Plants, License Extensions
COMPANY NEWS
- Chicago
Bridge & Iron Buys The Shaw Group for $3 Billion
- AMEC Wins
UN Contract to Remediate Oilfields Contamination in Kuwait