Environmental Management

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is using part of a $10 million block grant from BP to conduct research on the Gulf Oil Spill's impact on the marine ecosystem, officials announced this week.

LSI Corporation today announced it has received the 2010 Kansas Pollution Prevention Award from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). In 2009, the company's electronic scrap recycling program recycled almost 10,000 pounds of solid waste

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) will feature two special sessions on hot topic water quality issues during WEFTEC 2010 next month in New Orleans, La.

Scientists have warned that avoiding dangerous climate change this century will require steep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. New energy-efficient or carbon-free technologies can help, but what about the power plants, cars, trucks, and other fossil-fuel-burning devices already in operation? Unless forced into early retirement, they will emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for decades to come.

To help improve water quality in the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reissued an operating permit for the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility

Tampa Electric today announced that the company intends to partner with RTI International to construct a pilot project to demonstrate the technology to remove sulfur and capture and sequester CO2 from the Tampa Electric Polk Power Station's 250-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) unit

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it has issued voluntary information requests to nine natural gas service companies regarding the process known as hydraulic fracturing.

ADA-ES, Inc. announced that Michael D. Durham, President and CEO, and Mark McKinnies, Senior Vice President and CFO, will address institutional investors at two investment conferences

Cypress Envirosystems, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., recently announced that its award-winning Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat (WPT) has been featured in a new study commissioned by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI). The study, conducted by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), unveils a practical methodology for evaluating the carbon-reducing potential of new technologies

The first phase of a cleanup of radioactive tritium that leaked from the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant last year and into two aquifers below the facility will begin immediately, with a goal of pumping the tritium contaminated water out of the ground to avoid any potential contamination of potable water supplies, Commissioner Bob Martin announced recently.