Remediation Market News for May 09

 

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SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER

 

May 2009
No. 128

 

Table of Contents

 

MARKET NEWS

·         U.S. Supreme Court  Ruling in Favor of Shell May Limit Government’s Ability to Collect Superfund Cleanup Costs from Polluters in Future

·         Texas to Use Stimulus Funds to Clean Up Brownfields

·         Kentucky to Remediate Brownfields Sites with Stimulus Funds

·         Utica, NY Requests $16 Million in Stimulus Funds for Remediation of Former City Dump Site

·         New Jersey Adopts Licensed Site Remediaton Professional Program to Speed Cleanups

BUSINESS

·         Business 

SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES

·         Battelle Develops New Technology to Remediate Acid Rock Drainage without Producing Waste Stream

AROUND THE WORLD

·         Canada – Agreement between Province of Ontario, the Netherlands Focuses on On-Site Soil Remediation

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         W. R. Grace and Its Former Executives Cleared of All Charges Relating to Asbestos Contamination in Libby, Montana

·         EPA Presents Preferred Option for Final, $20 Million Cleanup of Rűtgers Organics Pesticide Plant in PA

·         Selection of New NRC Chief Likely to Curtail Any Progress on Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository

 

 

 

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Bob McIlvaine

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