The agency is working with the city and the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board to determine the amount of perchlorate at the site.
A new peer-reviewed study finds that polystyrene foam use significantly less energy and water than comparable paper-based or corn-based alternatives.
Everyone is invited to join in the discussion on Tuesday at Occupational Health & Safety magazine's twitter page.
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Sustainable Conservation win 2011 Pat Brown Award for removing copper from car brake pads and protecting salmon and aquatic life.
EPA said Permanent Siding and Windows, a contractor specializing in spray-on vinyl siding and replacing windows and doors, failed to provide the lead hazard information pamphlet to at least 17 owners or occupants before the company began renovation activities.
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University have demonstrated the potential to keep millions of tons of toxic waste out of landfills while improving the performance and lowering the cost of some of manufacturing industries' most expensive raw materials such as aluminum and magnesium.
The dairy launches renewable energy effort with the start of megawatt wind power project in Lancaster County, Pa.
With radiation levels rising in Japanese drinking water, companies are looking to distillers to provide a reliable source of safe drinking water for their employees' families.
International Architect Kevin Kennon has designed a mixed-use commercial building for Eco-City, Tianjin, China, that utilizes advanced Biophilic design technologies and strategies to reconnect people with nature.
The award is granted to an individual or team. Utilities, universities, environmental firms, and others conducting water quality research or engineering work are encouraged to apply.
Planters, America’s leading snack nut brand, opens the first Planters Grove, a peanut-shaped urban park in New Orleans’ historic Central City.
The new building at Veolia's Evergreen Landfill in Valdosta, Ga., will be used as a scale house for weighing all waste streams entering the landfill and as an on-site administrative office.
The Tuesday Webcast will provide a national overview of the nitrate in groundwater issue and highlight a case study in Oregon’s Southern Willamette Valley.
A National Solid Waste Management Association study describes how cities can privatize their garbage collection, disposal, and recycling programs while protecting the environment and often while maintaining employment.
Regardless of the incentive type, experience shows that incentives are most effective when implemented within a regulatory structure that already exists and functions well, according to the company's white paper.
The Lima, Ohio, company will collect mercury and mercury-containing devices, following discontinuation of a similar program by Bowling Green State University.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has ordered Chesapeake Energy to cease work on a natural gas drilling well pad for failing to comply with regulations and impacting one of Galeton Borough Water Authority's water sources.
The draft evaluation shows that the melter meets the criteria for “waste incidental to reprocessing” and may be managed and disposed of as low-level radioactive waste.
The report says EPA does not consider capital expenditures of manufacturers to meet regulatory deadlines or the basic law of demand ─ that higher prices will reduce demand and economic output.
One of Kansas' most abundant natural resources may hold the key to preventing major power outages. A team of Kansas State University engineers is researching ways to use Kansas wind and other distributed energy sources to avoid cascading failures.