As I write this latest installment of The Environmental Corner in mid-March, we are all watching and participating in some pretty turbulent times related to COVID-19. Outside of the fears related to our personal health and our loved ones, the specter of looming economic instability over the coming months has added insult to injury. As […]
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Rolling the Dice for Regulatory Closure
3 Rules on How to Hedge Your Bets and Come Out a Winner Environmental cleanups involve a great deal of creativity to make sure that the goals are met within acceptable timeframes, regulatory requirements, and of course, budget. The whole game plan is to reduce the amounts of contamination in the ground to levels that […]
Emerging Contaminant Alert for Dry Cleaners: PFAS is the New Bad Guy in Town!
Dry cleaners everywhere have been worried for decades about potential environmental contamination from their past operations. Through the years, you’ve become accustomed to the fact that petroleum derived solvents, and chlorinated compounds like tetrachloroethene (Perc) are bad if released to the environment. Well, now there is a new problem to think about, and it is […]