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Boston Chemical Data Corp recently showed Jana Elementary School in Florissant, Missouri, has radioactive isotope lead-210 levels 22-tims higher than expected on the kindergarten playground. 

The $38 million privately funded project, which spans 755 acres and includes 84 distinct work elements, stands apart as the largest brownfield cleanup by area in the history of the Georgia Brownfields Program and was completed ahead of schedule.

The U.S. EPA responded to a petition originally filed by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) in 2017 on Wednesday. 

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) filed a remediation plan to clean up a Superfund site in Chester County.

N3B investigates legacy sites from LANL’s Manhattan Project and Cold War operations and addresses environmental impacts resulting from these operations.

Forty U.S. senators signed a bipartisan letter to Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and White House officials urging increased funding for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) testing and remediation. 

“Expanding and increasing the number of contaminated brownfield sites remediated, especially in the south and west suburbs, will help correct historical injustice,” says Director of the Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability Deborah Stone.

Monticello hosts a former uranium disposal and processing site managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM).

Weston’s original technical paper called “Pilot-Scale Study for In-situ Leaching of Residual Uranium from Remediated Soil” recently achieved distinguished honors reserved for just 16 of the 300 papers submitted at the Waste Management (WM) Symposia held in March 2022.