Remediation Market News for Jan. 10

Here are the headlines in the Jan. 2010 Site Remediation and Emergency Response Newsletter.  Past issues for the last four years are searchable online.  You can receive this newsletter for the next 12 months plus have access to past issues for just $270/yr.  Click here for more information on this service:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/remediation.html .

SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER

    January 2010
No. 136

Table of Contents

MARKET NEWS

§  Over Past Five Years, 49 Million People Have Been Drinking Water Contaminated by Elevated Levels of Arsenic, Radioactive Substances, Bacteria in U.S.

SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES

§  Opportunities for DoD Funding to Demonstrate Cleanup Technologies

§  Director of ESTCP to Conduct Webinar January 15 Explaining Funding Opportunities

§  SERDP Project of the Year Winners Use Natural and Engineered Plants to Degrade, Contain RDX and TNT on Ranges 

§  Use of Amendments for Contaminated Sediments

§  Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Request for Proposals

AROUND THE WORLD

§  Australia – Paperlinx to Close Two Mills, Extensive Remediation Required

§  India – Bhopal Toxic Gas Released 25 Years Ago, Still No Cleanup

INDUSTRY NEWS

§  ASCARCO Pays EPA Record $1.79 Billion for Cleanup of 80 Contaminated Sites in 19 States

§  New Jersey To Receive $30 Million to Clean Up Contaminated ASARCO Sites

§  Sierra Club Petitions EPA to Halt New Jersey’s Program Allowing Private Consultants to Oversee Remediation of Contaminated Sites   

§  EPA Takes Steps to Develop Regulations Requiring Three More Industries to Provide Financial Assurance that They Can Clean Up Their Sites, If Need Be

COMPANY NEWS

• Energy Invest Group to Purchase Terra-Kleen Remediation Process of Sonic  Technology Solutions for $1.5 Million

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Bob McIlvaine

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com