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First-ever solid electron donor material found to improve chlorinated solvent treatments in bio-barriers

A leading approach for treating chlorinated solvents in groundwater is rooted in natural biology: Enhanced reductive dechlorination (ERD).

Paul Erickson, PHD

May 30, 2023

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A new solid, colloidal organic material (AquiFix) markedly improves remedial outcomes for in situ (i.e., in place) bio-barrier treatments designed to stop migrating CVOC plumes.

Landowners fear injection of fracking waste threatens West Texas aquifers

Slideshow: Operators pump a sea of “produced water” underground for disposal. Intensifying tremors raise fears that the deep toxic waste pits could intermingle with water used for farming and drinking.

Dylan Baddour | Inside Climate News Pu Ying Huang | The Texas Tribune

March 11, 2023

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Injection of wastewater from fracking troubles David Shifflett, a farmer who irrigates his crops and draws his drinking water from the ground, which has started to heave and bulge in recent years.

Summit Drilling Acquires Subsurface Environmental Technologies and Hill Environmental Group

The company is now a one-stop shop for probes, drilling, chemical injection, soil remediation, geophysics and utility locating/investigations.

February 6, 2023

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SET and Hill, based in Bordentown, NJ, have decades of environmental contracting experience.

Report evaluates DEP's oversight of abandoned wells in Pennsylvania

Fines totaling $1.3 million for the Pennsylvania oil industry. Environmental costs of $1.8 billion for state taxpayers.

Anthony Hennen

January 18, 2023

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Across Pennsylvania, thousands of violations have been issued in recent years over the “improper abandonment” of oil and gas wells.

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First-ever solid electron donor material found to improve chlorinated solvent treatments in bio-barriers

Landowners fear injection of fracking waste threatens West Texas aquifers

Summit Drilling Acquires Subsurface Environmental Technologies and Hill Environmental Group

Report evaluates DEP's oversight of abandoned wells in Pennsylvania

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