Remediation Market News For July 08
Here are the headlines in the July ’08
Site Remediation and Emergency Response Newsletter. Past issues for the
last four years are searchable online. You can receive this newsletter for the
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SITE
REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER
July
2008 No. 118
Table of Contents
MARKET NEWS
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New York
Significantly Modifies Brownfield Program to Promote Cleanups
BUSINESS
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Research Required on
Workers Exposed to Libby Vermiculite Containing Asbestos
AROUND THE WORLD
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Australia – House
Built atop Old Uranium Smelter too Radioactive for Habitation
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UK – $147 Billion
Estimated Cost of Cleaning Up, Decommissioning Nuclear Sites
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UK – Massive Site
Remediation Required Prior to Redevelopment of Chemical Plant Property in
Castleford
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UK – Cleanup
Required for Site of 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
INDUSTRY NEWS
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Superfund Listing
Urged for Newton Creek Separating Queens and Brooklyn
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Toxic Ash to Be
Removed from Jacksonville, FL Neighborhoods at Cost of $94 Million
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Coal Tar Leaking
from Old Gas Plant through Walls of Erie Canal in Lockport, NY
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EPA Proposes Listing
Fort Detrick, MD as Superfund Site
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DoD Resists EPA
Orders to Clean Up Bases, Efforts to Set More Stringent Standard for TCE
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Anaheim, CA Receives
Grant to Assess Brownfield Contamination
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Is It Safe to Use
Sewage Sludge as Fertilizer? No One Knows
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Maspeth, NY Site Deemed Significant Threat to Public Health and Environment
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Cleanup of DeLaval
Site in Poughkeepsie, NY Delayed
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$4 Million Awarded
to Clean Up Brownfields in Twin Cities Area of Minnesota
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$27.6 Million
Cleanup of Washington County Landfill in Minnesota Utilizes “Dig and Line”
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Asarco, Newmont to
Pay $138.5 Million to Clean Up Superfund Site in Leadville, CO
COMPANY NEWS
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Mergers,
Acquisitions Produce New Leaders of Environmental Services in Canada
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Versar
Wins $30 Million Contract from USACE for Environmental Work
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Mactec
to Remediate Part of 600-Acre Site in San Francisco
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Honeywell to Hire Engineering Firm for Bioremediation of Contaminated Site in
Groton, CT
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ARCADIS Acquires Italian Environmental Engineering Firm SET
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