Subject:  Remediation Market News

 

Here are the headlines to our May 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.  Click here for more details and the order form:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/remediation.html .

 

SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER

May 2005
No. 81

MARKET NEWS

·         DoD Announces Base Closures; Cleanup Lags at Military Bases Closed in Past

·         Security Inadequate at Chemical Plants, Refineries Concentrated in Northern NJ

·         Eight Parties Responsible for $96 Million Cleanup of Sediments in San Diego Bay

·         Program Monitors Flow of Contaminated Groundwater from Nevada Test Site

·         DoD Requests Exemptions to Certain Environmental Laws for Sake of Training

 

SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES

·         New Method to Identify Proteins in Microorganisms Used for Bioremediation

·         Nanotechnology Used to Treat Groundwater Contaminated by Mercury

 

AROUND THE WORLD

·         Africa – Program Launched to Clean Up Obsolete Pesticide Sites

·         Australia – Groundwater at BHP Steelworks Site to Be Remediated

·         Canada – Review of Tar Ponds Cleanup Creates Opportunities for Remediation

·         Czech Republic - Opportunities for Companies to Clean Up Uranium Mines

·         East Asia – Polluted Water, Air an Ever-Growing Threat to People in Cities

·         Eastern Europe – Cleaning Up Old Mines, Smelters

·         Macedonia – Nuclear Waste Dump Near Capital City?

 

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         Weston to Clean Up NJ Site Polluted by W.R. Grace and Hatco Chemicals

·         EPA Begins Study of Sediments at Tar Creek Superfund Site in Oklahoma

·         EPA Gives $75.9 Million for Brownfields; Wisconsin, Massachusetts Gain

·         Pennsylvania Has Second-Largest Number of Superfund Sites in US

·         Study Predicts Up to $3 Billion Needed to Clean Up MTBE

 

COMPANY NEWS

·         SAIC Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million Fine for Alleged Fraud in Kelly AFB Cleanup

·         First Environment to Clean Up Auto Salvage Site in Newburgh, NY

·         Veridium Acquires North Country Environmental Services

·         U.S. Microbics Partners with Engineering Firm in Germany

 

Bob McIlvaine

847-784-0012

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com

www.mcilvainecompany.com