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Near the industrial city Norilsk in northern Siberia in 2020, a destabilized storage tank released 17,000 metric tons of diesel. Incidents like this could "easily" become more frequent in the future as average global temperatures rise.

NGOs opposed to deep sea mining have successfully delayed the nascent industry, but after several regulatory advances, deep sea mining is set to go into commercial scale in international waters in 2024.

Many Indonesian environmental regulations have been inspired by US EPA regulations, which have served as an academic reference for Indonesian environmental regulations since the early 2000s.

EPA’s Pollution Prevention Award Program recognizes organizations that have taken the initiative to prevent pollution at the source.

The Toxics Release Inventory rulemaking petition would cover 400 incinerators nationwide. EPA has the legal authority to add incinerators to the TRI, but has not done so yet.

Because of the hazardous effects of vinyl chloride and its combustion byproducts, it was necessary to evacuate the local residents.

ASCE awarded Higgins the 2022 Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for a paper he co-wrote with colleagues that include Colorado School of Mines PhD candidate Stefanie Shea. 

EIS Holdings, LLC (EIS) provides mission-critical environmental, remediation, and infrastructure services across the United States, serving a wide variety of public and private end markets.

Moving forward, Sullivan's team will explore the chemistry and transport of PFAS in aerosols suspended in the atmosphere.

Under this settlement, Precise Packaging has agreed spend no less than $57,114 on a supplemental environmental project that will provide the Fall River Fire Department with two handheld chemical detection units that permit more effective responses to hazardous-waste-related emergencies.