ITRC Publishes New Guidance: Long-Term Contaminant Management Using Institutional Controls
The ITRC guidance Long-Term Contaminant Management Using Institutional Controls (IC-1) has been published on the ITRC website. ITRC has developed this guidance in response to recent growth in the number of sites that are being managed through the use of institutional controls (ICs). ICs are a form of land use controls that provide protection from exposure to contaminants on a site. Continue reading
Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, Pay $4.3 Billion in Criminal and Civil Penalties
WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy joined U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch at a press conference at the U.S. Department of Justice to announce that Volkswagen AG (VW) has agreed to plead guilty to three criminal felony counts, and pay a $2.8 billion criminal penalty, as a result of the company’s long-running scheme to sell approximately 590,000 diesel vehicles in the U.S. by using a defeat device to cheat on emissions tests mandated by the EPA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and by lying and obstructing justice to further the scheme… Continue reading
EPA Launches Back-To-Basics Agenda at Pennsylvania Coal Mine
U.S. EPA Media Relations (press@epa.gov)
SYCAMORE, Pa. – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt visited the Harvey Mine in Sycamore, Pa., today, to meet with coal miners and announce EPA’s Back-to-Basics agenda. The agenda reinforces Administrator Pruitt’s commitment to refocusing EPA on its intended mission, returning power to the states, and creating an environment where jobs can grow… Continue reading
US EPA’s New Administrator – Scott Pruitt
On February 17, 2017, the United States Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt as the 14th Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Administrator Pruitt believes that promoting and protecting a strong and healthy environment is among the lifeblood priorities of the government, and that EPA is vital to that mission… Continue reading
Multi-Phase Extraction Technology for Remediation
Abs: Multi-Phase Extraction (MPE) is a rapidly emerging, in-situ remediation technology for simultaneous extraction of vapor phase, dissolved phase and separate phase contaminants from vadose zone, capillary fringe, and saturated zone soils and groundwater. It is a modification of soil vapor extraction (SVE) and is most commonly applied in moderate permeability soils. Multi-Phase Extraction … Continue reading