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[FIGURES HAVE BEEN OMITTED] Each week, the mid-Connecticut resource recovery facility shreds and separates 12,000 tons of garbage to recover combustible fuel that fires an electric At the Mid-Connecticut Resource [...]

Don Heimmer loves to play hide and seek. It's also what he does for a living. Heimmer heads up Geo-Recovery Systems Inc., a firm which is hired to locate materials [...]

Imagine stepping outside for a breath of flesh air--and encountering 3 billion tons of air pollution. According to the Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA), that's how much pollution has [...]

Versar Inc. has benefitted from increased efforts to protect the United States from potential chemical or biological acts of terrorism. The article discusses the rising interest in the firm since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and provides and overview of the company's services.

For Aldyen Donnelly greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading is an idea whose time has come. As president of the Greenhouse Emissions Management Consortium (GEMCo), Donnelly has spent the past five [...]

Owners of paper and pulp mills have begun to consider hiring a contractor to handle water and waste treatment. While outsourcing typically can be a source of savings, a potential problem is lack of communication between a mill and its contractor. Contracts usually require a mill to agree that its discharge to a contractor's facilities will be of a certain volume and quality, and the treatment contractor assumes responsibility for the final effluent, says Jim Thibodeaux of Treated Water Outsourcing., As they have with power islands and maintenance services, pulp and paper mill owners are examining the advantages and liabilities of 'outsourcing' their water and waste treatment services. And they [...]

Hainesport, NJ-based Tabasco Drilling Corp. installs wells to monitor commercial spill cleanups using traditional methods. The firm shifted to a bioremediation process in Apr. 1994 that minimized costs by 50% to 60%. The new techniques has been applied by Tabasco in its residential oil cleanup services for Harrietts Oil Service. The bioremediation process usually covers three months before completion.

Asphalt paving doesn't strike outsiders as a particularly high-tech business. Who could imagine, then, that an asphalt-paving company would give birth to what would become the nation's largest privately held [...]

RZA AGRA'S GEOLOGISTS PROBE landslides in the Philippines and roadbeds in Oregon. Their microbiologists clean contaminated soils. Specialists determine options for marshlands management. This diversity -- and an 18-year record [...]

Natural Solutions of Mumbai was set up in 2003 and offers services in the areas of sewage/effluent treatment, rainwater harvesting, environmental pollution control and groundwater/surface water replenishment. The company is [...]

Sabre Environmental Services announced the latest results of its continuing research and analysis of Chinese drywall. Testing performed by Sabre and independent labs has demonstrated viable bacteria present in Chinese [...]

ABB's Bjorn Stigson looks at possible solutions to the problem of waste-product disposal. The Zurich-based ABB Asea Brown Boveri group has an important position in the field of environmental technology. [...]

By Tom Stundza ArcelorMittal Dofasco is investing $16 million to help improve the air quality in Hamilton, Ontario. The investment will include a variety of equipment upgrades aimed at reducing [...]

Underground tanks silently seeping into soil A silent problem seeps through the earth beneath Houston. More than 800 underground storage tanks are leaking contaminated waste into city soil as regulators [...]

Sick buildings spur designers to invent cure The growing concern about Sick Building Syndrome is an issue to many people, not the least of whom are the architects and engineers [...]

Polychlorinated biphenyls - the phrase may not trip off the tongue, but, along with chlorofluorocarbons and dioxins, it has firmly entered the public consciousness. More commonly known as PCBs, these [...]

Save the environment and save on your energy bill. That is the concept of Detroit-based Carbon Credit Environmental Services. Located in Detroit's TechTown, CCES provides services to companies looking to [...]

Finding Common Ground in Environmental Disputes The IPAA Center for Environmental Negotiation and Mediation This special report by the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) introduces a new service for [...]

Byline: Jim Johnson Mexico's green building movement is just starting to take root. And it's Cesar Trevino's job to help nurture the growth. But the president of the Mexico Green [...]

Entact has opened an office in the Pittsburgh area to better serve the Mid-Atlantic region. The company, with $120 million in annual revenue, now has offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, [...]

Green Suites International and Project Planet Corp. will launch a 'pennies per occupied room' towel-and-linen reuse program so hotels can avoid upstart costs associated with the water- and energy-saving equipment [...]

Aspen Environmental opens near its top client: state Energy Commission A former Aerojet executive has launched a new South Natomas office for the Southern California environmental consulting firm Aspen Environmental [...]

Hiring an environmental consultant can be a daunting task. Today, it seems as if there is a consultant for everything, and finding just the right person and knowing what to [...]

Environmental consulting firm broadens testing services to compete After a year of double-digit growth, Leslie and Jim Strohm face a new kind of challenge for their environmental consulting business -- [...]

Professionals are trained in site assessment, screening Hiring an environmental consultant can be a daunting task. Today, it seems as if there is a consultant for everything and finding just [...]

NAIOP SoCal Investigates Storm Water Run Off Who is to bear the cost of cleaning up our ocean waters? That is the question being debated. To address the issue of [...]

Austin Technology Incubator gives birth to incubator that targets' clean energy' companies The Austin Technology Incubator is going clean. ATI has launched a 'clean energy' incubator that will nurture companies [...]

For over a century, Wolverine Proctor & Schwartz has been dedicated to the research, development, technical innovation and design of thermal processing systems serving the food, chemical, textile and tobaccco [...]

JLJ Effluent Engineering Limited have devised a low cost contract hire scheme to help manufacturers avoid heavy fines for pollution. JLJ's Effluent Engineering's Environmental Solutions Agreement (ESA) enables companies to [...]

EVER walk down the street and step in a gooey wad of gum? Though there's a lot of stuff to step in on the streets of Los Angeles, Agoura Hills-based [...]

Firms tend to develop honorable but obscure environmental policy statements that are hard to measure. 1. No management buy-in Any facility that attempts to implement an environmental management system (EMS) [...]

THE BUSINESS Clean Harbors Inc. provides a wide range of environmental services to a diversified customer base in die United States arid Puerto Rico. The company has 12 waste management [...]

Cleaning up the environment after ballast dumps could lead to windfall for local firm Little company, big job. And, potentially, big bucks. That's the story of Marine Environmental Partners, a [...]

Mosby Publishing has been recognized for its participation in DuPont's carpet reclamation program. Mosby is remodeling five buildings on its property. The 68,400 square feet of old carpeting is being [...]

CONCURRENT WITH THE December acquisition of its pharmaceutical operations by DSM Fine Chemicals, Catalytica Inc. spun off its combustion systems and advanced technology subsidiaries into Catalytica Energy Systems. Inc. (CES). [...]

RIVERSIDE, CALIF - Through April 30, 2001, PIRK RecordKeeping of Riverside, Calif., is offering free stormwater pollution prevention plans to owners and managers of service shops. The plans are designed [...]

Crude oil tank bottoms reduce production capacity and present big operational problems for petroleum refiners. Few disposal options exist, and those currently available are very costly. So Industrial Ecosystems Inc. [...]

For James Rigano, a partner in the Melville-based law firm McMillan, Rather, Bennett & Rigano, interacting between the law and science is easy As an aquatic biologist turned environmental lawyer, [...]