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Currently, Sears Island is a recreation hub for Penobscot Bay as a popular destination for hiking, biking, fishing, birdwatching, and boating, as well as snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and other seasonal activities.

Clean Earth will partner with the U.S. Department of Defense in a critical PFAS remediation study.

Epic Environmental’s senior leadership team, including founders Mark Breitfuss and Brad May, will join Montrose’s Consulting and Engineering division.

The draft policy repeatedly declares its intent to prevent political suppression of scientific information, but Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) say the policies lack concrete rules.

The stakes are high when it comes to road salts: compromised drinking water, shrinking aquatic habitats and long-term pollution from legacy salt stores in soil and groundwater requiring costly remediation.

PEER's petition targeted the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s failure to ensure adequate testing and monitoring of flares. 

“This ruling is a complete vindication of Evi Emmenegger,” said PEER Senior Counsel Peter Jenkins, noting that these lab malfunctions keep recurring because the USGS facilities are not independently accredited.

PEER decries allowing federal agencies to continue self-policing their own scientific integrity.

It is crucial to develop new uses for fly ash. Due to high alkalinity and high metal content, it may be used for the chemical precipitation of LFD, but there are few reports on this aspect.